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Tracker mice, Endura nose repair, wrong 442 parts & Hybrid love

The carpet conundrum in Chris' Tracker is fixed, only to be eclipsed by a rodent infestation. Our good friend Kilowatt Kevin gets the Endura nose on his 68 GTO aligned by "the old school master", Steve, at Celebrity Chase Collision, then helps Ray re-install the gas tank in the 70 442 at the shop. The transmission mount for that car proves to be a problem when the parts house sends the wrong one, stalling forward progress. Ray uses a Hybrid truck to run some shop errands and becomes a convert, who would've ever believed that... check our social media feed to see the pictures. On Instagram: @real_motormouthradio and on You Tube: https://youtu.be/VCCf_dZnpVs

Duration:: 58m
Broadcast on:: 21 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

This Sunday! Every Sunday! Side-by-side at the microphone, from the green light to the speed trap, Chris Witzer and Ray Carino calls him as they seize him and you better believe him. Here, relevant news, biased opinions and outright bullshit regarding every aspect of automotive culture and gas, but mechanical trickery never before revealed over FCC-regulated airwaves. The thrill to the explosive tension is Chris and Ray cuss each other down the track and barrel roll across the finish line and clapping as certain disaster as they shake hands for the devil! All that much more, this Sunday at Hymoon on the motor-mouthed radio hour, call in and speak live with the wizards of speed and live feed, Chris Witzer and Ray Carino bring the whole family, kids under 12 get in free, every Sunday at noon on WHPC. Take the Long Island Expressway to the Meadowbrook Parkway and look for the sign saying "No parking on the expressway and no express service on the parkway, go right on Highway 24 to Garden City, $2 all day parking includes Pit Pass!" Monday! "You may not be able to make it, you could break it or fake it if you want to, because you've tuned into Long Island's only automotive car show, motor-mouthed radio with your hosts. Where are you going, Chris Witzer? Here we are again, Chris to do a rousing, what are you shaking the head for, you got flies going around you? What are you playing in the Bay City Rollers, who's that? That's Paul Revere Interators, oh, that was Paul Revere Interators from some time in the 60s. Yeah, some distant time in the 60s, wow, I didn't know what that was. I know, I know, I know. That was a big to-do back then, it was like "Yeah, what are we doing?" What was the name of that little ditty? Mr. Son, Mr. Moon, just like they sang. Yeah, I've seen it on, I remember seeing the title on a, on like a Hot 100 list. They probably call the song. Very 60s, right? Oh, yeah. It's got the hardcore chord in the back. It almost has like a 70s little vibe to it going on. Like the Parker's family, maybe? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and then we have the transitional, we have the transitional coda here. Yeah, fun stuff, you know, older music is great. Just like older people are a lot of fun to hang out with. You youngsters, you'll find out, you'll learn a lot from us old sisters. Old music is kind of cool too because you see stuff kind of that came and went and things that you say, "Wow, when did they ever think of doing that?" You know, there's a lot to be said for that. I'm a big fan. You know, that's one of my hobbies, big passions in life. Anyways, collecting music, collecting audio. Yeah, and then playing it. So, was the week fruitful for you automatically this past week? Or was it another dud? Well, let's put it this way. Just yesterday, I was vacuuming out one of my cars. Yeah, and I ran into a house nest. Oh, really? Did it hurt? Well, I had left because it wasn't the car you would think it would be. It wasn't the Chrysler. Yeah. Although, I think there was a lot of things living in the Chrysler at some point of its life. I told you, when I first bought the car, it had acorns everywhere. They were literally, it was like a cartoon when I first started it up. Acorns went flying out of the tailpipe all over the driveway. It was comical. And I'm sure there's still some baked in a muffler or two. No, actually, no, there won't be because I put tools on it. So, no, I stand corrected. There are no acorns left in the exhaust system. But anyway, I digress. Just yesterday, I was vacuuming out the tracker. And I noticed this barnyard smell in the back of a car. I'm like, yeah. Well, mind you, I took it one step further. When I first purchased this thing, someone who owned it before me had spilled latex paint on the back of the rear seat. Like they had the rear seat folded down and a can of latex paint on it. Well, that spill all over the carpet ran all down the edge of the seat, ran all into the back and onto the gray carpet on the floor of the truck. So, I was trying to clean it. And mind you, it does not come out. I've tried everything. Of course, it was dry, obviously, whomever purchased, whoever did this, just allowed it to dry onto the carpet. So now it's impossible to get out. So, last time you told this story, somebody called. So, let's keep that drying while we go to the phones and say, "Hi, quality. You're all with the motor mouths. You have a paint story?" Yeah. I'm calling for different reasons. You guys know about Fiat Spider. I do. Yes. I own one. Who are we speaking to? 1979. Right. I have for about six months that I haven't started. Okay. I try to start it doesn't go. What do you think? I guess and everything. Okay. Well, first of all, who are we speaking to? What's your name? My name is John Montgomery. Okay, John. John Montgomery. Oh, yeah, Rita's husband. Yeah. Got it. Hi, John. Okay. Well, it hasn't started in six months. Okay. So, it cranks over. The battery is good. Yes? No, battery is good. You're going to chat, chat, chat, chat. Okay. I put some spray to, you know, to start it. If we're going to get to lean, then we're going to collaborate. But not just going. And it's not going. Okay. Well, you need to determine what you have and what you don't have. So, you need to have, obviously, compression. You know, you need fuel. You need spark. You know, and you need, you need bank. So, if, if usually when you hit it with some ether, it'll, it'll induce it to fire if you have spark. So, maybe you're missing out on the spark part. You know, you may not have ignition. You think I should change the spark plug? Well, no, not the plugs themselves. I would, you know, I would take a wire or you could take a spark plug out. Put the wire back on. Put the wire back on it. And then hold that spark plug about a half inch by a ground, by the engine. And then have someone crank the engine and see if the plug sparks. And if it does spark, then you have to look at the color of the spark. See if it's hotter, you know, or, or weak. If there's no spark, then you have to go look down. You have to troubleshoot. Is it a ignition coil? That car in '79 has a, um, a GM four pin module. That's on the four, yeah, a GM four pin module. On the fender well, on the, on the right side fender well, where the ignition coil is, right under that, you'll see, uh, this four pin module. That's a, that's a big source of failure. Um, but readily available now because you just need a, a GM part. Um, yeah. Yeah. And then it's electronic distributors are a luster and, uh, you know, magnetic pickup. I had problems with mine years ago. I changed it, but you know, you have to go step by step is what you, what you need to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so see if you have spark. I think you may not have spark. Um, what happened was that I was leaking gas from the hose. They're going into the, into the motor. You know, the, uh, the fuel pump was the hose from the fuel pump going to the engine. It broke. Okay. So I, I replaced that. Maybe there was no cap and no gas for a little while. And now maybe doesn't go. I don't know. Maybe that's what I think. No, I mean, when you replace the hose, that's, that's a standard thing to do. As soon as you crank the engine and the pump works again, it'll supply fuel up to the, up to the carburetor. I keep pushing gas in there from, from, from, from the usually started right away. Right. Right. That's how this time doesn't start out. That, that's why I think something else is maybe a miss over there. Or you could have poured too much gas into the carburetor. And now the whole, now the chambers are flooded. Whereupon, like what Ray says, you have to pull, not just one plug, pull them all, let it all in. They are out. And why, why you're checking for spark would probably be a good idea to do that as well. Yeah, check the spark. See what it's going on. That's what I think. I think it's a spark, probably a spark issue, John. Yeah. If you have any more questions, feel free to call and we'll be happy to help you. All right. Thank you very much. Okay, John. Thanks. All right. Bye bye. Thanks for the call, John. That's Rita Montez husband, Rita from Parfuma, the Italiano. Yes. I remember Rita talking about that. Yes. Exactly. Yes. By one, six, five, seven, two, seven, four, four, zero. I haven't said that number in a while. No. But did you just to, just to say, yeah, I found a kind of like a, that paint that was all over the back seat just wouldn't come out. The cargo carpet took that out and stuck it in water. Just let the paint soften up on the carpet. Yeah. Obviously during the summer. And it still wouldn't come out. I scrubbed it with everything, even a wire brush. Right. Wouldn't all come out. So I, I, I bucked up and called a guy who had one in the middle of New York state that had the right seat pattern. And I just asked him, I said, look, want to sell the back portion of your rear seat. Oh. And he said, yeah. He says, and I said, why are you at it for the cargo carpet in there? And he went, yeah, sure. So he did. And I got them delivered yesterday and I couldn't wait to swap them out. Yeah. Yeah. Cause it just looked awful. Okay. It just would paint spill, spillage everywhere. It just looked awful. So I swapped out as I was swapping out the rear seat back and the cargo carpet. I was vacuuming it all out, getting all the product out of there. And I noticed the smell and I'm like, what is that barnyard smell? So sure enough, there's a little access panel on the driver's side. You open it up and that's where the jack is and the jack is and all that stuff. And I saw this little puff of something in the corner there and I went, that's it. Oh. Yeah. It's either a ham sandwich from 78 or a mouse. Yeah. I went and got the long nose pliers and a paper bag and I just started feeding somebody. I didn't want to touch this. Yeah. Yeah. So I started grabbing and then I had to actually pop the speaker out cause there was a speaker there and I popped that out to get the rest of it and to vacuum it all out. Yeah. And move on with my day. But it was just like, I'm in the back going, why did I ever smell this before? Right. Right. Where did this come from? Was this from the old owner? I mean, cause I'm thinking of myself cars in the garage. I don't, the way that I'd messed was, it was a big mess. I'm thinking there'll be a lot of mice running out. Wow. You can't miss that. You are in the mouse to tier state. So it's very possible. Well, yeah. Well, that's true. That's true. I always say every day up here, I fight nature. I fight nature every single day. Well, well, while you were fighting nature and the, uh, and the mouse population, we would have some real car work down here on Long Island. Let me tell you. Don't tell me. You'll, you'll be. You'll be. You'll, you'll be happy to know that kilowatt Kevin got his car over, uh, on Mike's behest over to celebrity chase collision yesterday morning. And Steve, one of our regular listeners spent a good part of the day aligning that front end for him, getting all the panels as close as they could possibly be. Hey, that's awesome. Right. And you know that, you know, with a car that age, uh, where parts may have been changed and all sorts of, you know, you're probably never going to get it like, you know, chip foos perfect. It ain't going to happen. In fact, when foos does that, it's, it's like hundreds of hours of, of metalwork. But believe me, if, if Kevin came up to my Chrysler and he could be pointing around it all day long and all the mismatch panels on my car, I believe me. Right. So I'm trying and I've ruined the painted sub corners. Yeah. Well, so this, this is much, much, much better. Steve did a great job. Kevin's very happy and, uh, Nicole is looking good. And, and you know, when I, uh, I'll post this stuff up on social media, of course, on Facebook and X, it's motor mouth radio on, on, uh, Instagram, it's real underscore motor mouth radio and we'll also be on motor mouth video if you go, uh, on YouTube, but you have to go to real underscore motor mouth video to find that channel on YouTube and you'll see the pictures. I'll, I'll put some shots up with Kevin's car. It looks great. It looks really good. I would love to see it. I'm looking forward to it. Because yeah, it's, and it, it, you know, it's, I guess you could say I'm a jerk about it. Well, I, yeah, we know, we talked about that yesterday and, and yeah, we did. Oh, and I did, and so I was like, yeah, bring Chris down here. Let's take a look at his garbage. Let's see. I'll be your first one, I've, I've, I've aligned what I could. Yeah. I've aligned what I could. Sure. And to me, when you're aligning, like let's say a hood to the fenders and the bumper, sometimes that's the easiest because all there, all there are are just two, uh, would you say threaded rubber topped bolts, the stoppers. Yeah. Yeah. You move up and down and to align the hood to the, to the fenders easiest job. I can't tell you how many times I've had to put like some sort of liquid wrench or some sort of anti-seize, just, just whatever. I mean, some liquid, uh, penetrant, I should say, just to loosen them because they've never been moved. No, no, they don't. You know, you have to pop the rubber top off it, grab it with their vice grips. Yes. Exactly. Wiggling the heck out of it. Because they, no one ever took it upon themselves to actually use these things. So, so I've done that. I've aligned those things perfectly on my car. But I got a door up against the fender on the driver's side that makes me crazy. Yeah. Because it does, it's not a line. Right. And for some reason I just can't do what I got. I've actually had that door in my hand and still couldn't align. Right. So I, I, I tipped my hat to Steve for actually doing it with probably without marring the paint I would hope. Yeah. Special enough to do that. But yeah. I mean, I've tried. I've gotten most of the panels right, but, but not all of them. So what, yeah, when you see a car like that, it now looks like one piece. That's what you mentioned. Chipfuse. That's what I loved about Chipfuse. When you see his work, everything, a car looks like one block of metal. It doesn't look like a assembly, an assemblage of parts just thrown together. Well, I'm not saying, I'm saying you want to avoid that, that, that at all possible. And I would just look at pictures of some of the cars and, and that's the first thing I would do it go. That's out of alignment. That's out of alignment. You know, I can tell you this, that one of the fellas we have up here, Caesar, I went to his shop with, with Rick and with Cliff. And he's got a couple cars that are, that he had built from self that are kindig cars. And it's the first time I saw one in person in front of me. And when you look at that, the statements you just made all come to fruition in metal. And you literally can't say anything. You don't know, I didn't know what to say. But when I blipped from drool, I was like, I was like, this is beautiful. Like this car is art. It really is a piece of art. And that's what he said. Well, yeah. Well, that's why when you get bills of, you know, install right front fender and, and, and this, you know, install, uninstall, R and I, R and I, like 50 times, you know, metal work saw massage bundle. It was like, you know, 800 hours, whatever in a week, you know, and like send me three brands, you know, and then we'll go on to the next one. And then we'll look at, you know, every piece gets done like that. So yeah, very, very nice. But then we went, we went back, you know, Kevin came over and met me at the other shop. I was over there working on the 442. Oh, okay. I was going to put the gas tank back in. And I tell you something, Chris, gas tanks and me, I don't know, they never go back in the way they came out. They're always harder to go back in, even if it's the original one. Sounds like a personal. I know it, you know, so we fought with that a little bit. But the other thing was while I was waiting, I was waiting for the guy to deliver a roll of hose, you know, so I could, you know, put a piece of hose on it. So I said, okay, let me do something else. I had, you know, motor mounts and a transmission mount to do and the motor mounts aren't getting done until the headers come off. So I said, no, let me do the transmission mount, right? How hard is that? Right. So, you know, jack up the tranny, screw jack, get the mount out. And I had to wear with all to take the bolts that go through the cross member into the mount and made sure they threaded into the new mount. Good idea. Because I had the problem with my car, when I was recording it, I bought new motor mounts. I've told the story and I went to install them on the car and I had the factory bolts. And those are the bolts that have that pointed end on them that leads into the nut. Right. I could have flat end. It's got to pointed in. So it does. Red in. I couldn't get this thing to start. I couldn't get it to start at all. I tried it on. No. Why? Because one of the motor mounts, the nut was metric and the other motor mount, the nut was the wrong thing. Put them in the box, took them back and said, give me my money back. And Kevin and I happened to be out of the guy's place. We were buying some parts from him and I saw an engine on the stand and I said, hey, what are you doing? Well, it's the engine. I'm going to rebuild it for my car. What are you doing with the motor mounts? You're going to change those two? He goes, oh, yeah, yeah. They just, I didn't take them off the motor. I said, do you want to sell them? And he said, sell them. He goes, they're all going to throw them out. I'm like, yeah, but they look like they're in pretty good shape. He goes, oh, they're usable. I said, want to sell them? He goes, what do you give me? So I give you 20 bucks. And I did. I gave him 20 bucks for the used motor mounts and that's what's in my car right now. That's in your car. Because they fit and they worked. So what happened with the transmission mount of the old, you say? The what happened with the transmission mount and the old I say, I'm glad you asked. The bolts fit into the threads, then I got a bolted to the tranny and I put one of the five, eight bolts in and I look and I can't get the other one in. Why? Because the mount is too short. The bolt spread was wrong. I was like, it's the wrong freaking mount. It's a turbo 400. They put these in everything that GM ever made, right? What I don't know. What they sent the power glide mount. I don't know what they sent. So this is the problem that we are having, but it's a generation, right? This is the problems that we are having because, you know, you remember the old days where, like you say, and a legit lament, you say, it's a 400 transmission mount. They're everywhere. Why? Why? But if you think about it, there's whomever put that thing in a box, probably you have a wallet older than they are. Yeah, right. No, and it's not because they're stupid. It's just that they're not aware of those parts and that transmission, you know? But there's more. No, there's more. But there's more. There's more. Because I happen to know the guy that this stuff got ordered through. He's a good guy. He's an old guy, an older guy at the warehouse. I think it was boxed wrong. I think that somewhere along the line, they put the wrong part in the right box and the part number is probably correct, but it's the wrong part in the box. And that's the other side of the scale. So now that sitting there now, you know, dead in the water waiting for a mount, we'll get to it this week, I guess. So, you know, there's all this stuff that you run into though, real time when you're trying to work on a car. And I said now, you know, like you talk about it all the time, what if you had to take that car out? What if I had to go? Yeah, you know, you could bolt the old mountain. It's nice to be able to leave the cross member unbolted and add a place and take the screw jet because the car isn't guarding you or it's on the lift, it's living you. But like you had said many times, if that car had to go out for whatever reason, either to be parked outside or driven, taken, wherever, you know, you'd have to put the old one back in and then just do that job twice, you know, do it again. And I had to do that with my wife's Mazda. I mean, take the top of the motor off more times than I wanted to because I had to get the right combination of parts to take care of that engine code that I had, and while waiting for the new parts to arrive. Yeah. So yeah. And speaking of which, I had to change the serpentine belt on the Mazda. And I went and got the long serpentine belt idler pulley tool. Yeah, you're going to go to Harbor Freight, right? Went to Harbor Freight. 20 bucks. Okay. Wonderful tool. Okay. The only bad thing was that the tool was, how can I say this without smiling? Right? Yeah. My tool was too long. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That's an interesting conundrum to be in. Isn't that a problem? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, did you whack some length off it? I was thinking about it. Here's what happened. Yeah, what happened? I was able to with the with that breaker tool, I was able to get the old belt off. Okay. But because the new belt is not stretched, obviously, the new belt, when I, when I brought the tool down, would hit the top of the radiator shroud. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So it wasn't bringing the idler pulley to its full extent that I can hang the belt on. Yeah. Just shot. Now, was it you I was talking to or someone else about changing the idler pulley on their car. I think it might have been you. I did. I actually replaced the idler. So it is a new idler pulley and you still have the rain. Oh, okay. Okay. So I go and research it. Yeah. And one guy who worked on this exact model vehicle actually cut a gouge in the radiator shroud gave himself the clearance clearance. To bring that tool down into the gout so he can hang the belt on it. Yeah. And I'm thinking to myself, yeah, how about doing that? The other, the other thing is, I mean, I know you have the long tool and it's great for the leverage, but that's the time to go back in the box and get something that's shorter, like maybe you know, a two foot breaker bar. Well, here's what I did do. Okay. I have a socket sized regular. What would you call it? I mean, it's, it's just got the box itself. You could put the three eighths box and you could put a socket on it. It's a breaker bar. It's what? A breaker bar. It's like a breaker bar, but it's very small. It's like, you know, it's like, you know, they come different lanes. Sure. Yeah. So I have, I guess you could say the smallest one. Yeah. Yeah. So what I did was because I had no leverage, I clamped on a pair of vice grips to it. Okay. So now I got it about two feet long. All right. Well, you could use a piece of pipe, you know, yeah, that's true. I didn't have anything like that in front of me. So what I did was I used the vice grips, clamped it on there, fit that into the idler pull notch. And then I was able to swing that down as under the radiator shroud and that gave me the clearance. Good. Yeah. You went to a shorter tool. Yeah. That's what you got to do. And that's why mechanics have arsenals of tools. You know, speaking of that, we were, we kind of finished up yesterday, we were sitting there in a shop and a pickup truck pulls in and Kevin says up, you know, a guy, yeah, a guy probably wants something, you know, sorry, buddy, we're closed. Yeah. Meanwhile, all the bay doors are open, you know. And the guy comes in with this, speaking of this thick Southern accent, not as thick as somebody else we know, but thick. And he was a mobile tool guy and he had his pickup truck filled with tools and he says, man, I want to say you some tools. I was like, listen, dude, I said, I got more tools on the sudden you sell you some tools in a minute, you know, he's always want to talk to you for a minute. And it was funny because I just spoke to Brian maybe an hour earlier, I said, well, I was just talking to my mobile tool guy on the phone, even though he's not, you know, mobile here. I said, but, you know, so I'm just trying to like see what this guy is doing. Yeah. So if I said, well, come on out to the truck, like, oh boy. Here we go. So we go out. Let the game speak in and he had a pickup truck with the Tanner cover up and his back and his bed was filled with tools. And Kevin was like, oh my God, what kind of springs you have in this truck, you know? Yeah. I mean, it's not hunkered down. Well, I'll tell you this guy was shucking and driving. Tell me he's got an idea. I just, I walked up to the back and I just did an overview glance and in two seconds, my mind knew, okay, he's like a second, third, fourth level tool dealer. Like some of the guys I see online sell really good stuff to be selling VIM and they sell a Milwaukee and they're selling some of the other really good brands that are out there. This guy had, it was kind of like the Harbor Freight version, you know? And I'm sure he had great prices. We didn't get that far. Cause I said to him, I said, listen, I said, I really got everything I need right now, which of course I don't. Nobody ever does. I said. When did the insults begin? He was a pro. I was, I would ask him a question about something and he would just keep talking about something else. Like he was trying to sell, sell, sell, sell, sell. Right. Finally, after about five minutes of this, you know, and Kevin wasn't having any of it either. I said, all right, you know what? I'm done. I said, you know what? Why don't you go to the other shop? We have another shop. Why don't you go down and out one and see if those guys, those are all body guys down there. They have like, he goes, well, I got a, you need a lockout tool kit. I said, no, I don't because the body guys have it. I use this. You know, like I was deflecting, I was like Wonder Woman. I was bullet for flying, man. Every time, every thing you throw at me, I was like, I was, I was deflecting, but I sent them that. I give them traffic. Try it. I'm just fixing you in the Wonder Woman suit. It's not, it's not pretty. Yeah. I tell you, I give them credit for trying. It's, and Kevin and I were talking. It's a tough business going shop to shop to hawk tools, but it's even tougher when you go into shops where guys use top line tools and he's selling kind of the third line tools. Yeah, if I needed something, like the reason you would go to Harbor Freight for something that you know, that you're not going to, you're not going to use all the time, you usually say to yourself, Hey, look, if it breaks or I get, or I lose it, who cares? You know, big deal. That's kind of the mentality you have to buy, have from buying the stuff that he had on his truck. It's like, yeah, if it breaks or I lose it, all right, I need it once and that's, that's okay. So exactly. Totally understand. But I assume Georgia. Oh, pride in half of the tools I own. I said to him, I said, you know, I'm thinking of a relocation down in North Carolina. Yeah. I'm from Georgia. It's like, Hey, I know somebody from Georgia. So you guys are tough. I said, he's still ain't buying any crappy tools though. He's got any moonshine on that truck. He's sick. He did. Yeah. He got any ammo. He did not have any moonshine ammo or, or, or anything else on the truck. So I couldn't spend any money with them, but I, what I can, what I can, what I can spend with you is the bottom of the hour break that we have every week. So nice. So let me tell you that first we talk about the weather. That's what we've been talking about is the weather and this forecast is powered by Pentanos gourmet with locations in Yuleton Uniondale today. Yeah. It was cloudy a little bit in the morning. They said chance of showers. That's later right now. I look out W HPC weather window. Hold on. What do you see? It is cloudy. It's a little cloudy, but I can see some blue sky. So it's, it's half and half. It's kind of meant to meant to, you know, it's beautiful right now. It was in the eighties on the way in to the station. They say this afternoon, we have some spotty showers around three, three thirty and then partly cloudy early tonight was increasing clouds with increasing dark, which will lead to more periods of lightness in the morning. That's what they say. At least. Yes. Very clever. It is right. And also I have to ask you, if you're a proud member of the NCC NASA community college alumni, and if you are, or if you aren't, you can find out more about the NASA community college alumni association by visiting NCC dot edu slash guns and roses. No, slash alumni. So, I'm sorry. Well, I am an alumni of the radio station. I guess it's a yes. You are. You are. I have a teacher of radio throughout the year. You taught me. So now, whatever buddy, yeah, when you want to know what happened to me, there he is right there. Go find him. All right. There you go. Yeah. I'm glad you brought that up, Chris. Thank you. Yes. You are. I am your radio father. Yes. That's very true. That's very true. Now go do the dishes and rate the Lord. Do we have another group of the hour? I'm afraid we do right here on this fine, I'm standing Sunday at motor mouth radio. We do. And this week, obviously, we honor all kinds of groups of people automatically. And this week, those who pride themselves on knowing how to squeeze into a parallel parking spot. Yeah. With everyone pulling in and out of parking spots and make them all and shopping centers. You know, you have no fear of parking bumper to bumper, you know, right in the street. That's where the real talent lies. Do you thumb your nose at late model parking gizmos like confounded parking cameras or annoying warning beepers? Can you still assume the position with your hand on the passenger seat and your body is somewhere twisted so to look out the rear window to gauge the distance to the car behind you without letting out a grunt noise or suffering a sharp pain in the back? Well, if you still have the fortitude to swing a vehicle between two parked cars in the street without busting a taillight, suffering some premium wheel, herb, rash, or knocking his and bystanders off the sidewalk, then you are part of the motor mouth radio. Want to go to the hour this week? That's a good one. That's a good one. Tell you what, I'm going to when we come back, I'm going to tell you a little story about how I think I may be coming to convert and going over to maybe the dark side a little bit. I'm going to tell you about that. We come back. So we have to gather around the campfire. Yeah. On the other side, no more singing kumbaya. Well, you can sing until we come back and then we're going to do that. Yeah. But yeah, it has to deal with new vehicle choices. So, yeah, you know, you kind of know what my vehicle choices are, but I'm going to tell you I'm kind of going the other way right now and I'm going to tell you about it. We come back. Well, I got to admit out of all of the things that you and I disagree on and there are. There are. There are. There are. It's surprising that we can go on so well. Yes. Amazingly, yes. My mind is boggled. Yeah. Because your dark side is my, what would you say, my into more intelligence. Oh. White side. All right. All right. Well, if you want to. Yeah. So I'm very interested in what you have to what you have to tell me. All right. So that's it. So stay tuned. I don't know where my dark side is going with the watermelon radio on this fine station. Right now we're going to hear a song that's a actually in a Quentin Tarantino edit, which is kind of cool. I thought that was really pretty neat because he said I'm a big fan of his and we'll be back with more and more about the radio Chris, what's a regular, you know, 90.3 WHPC. Let's hit the quitten. We'll be back with answers to your car questions. Give us a call at 516-572-7440, oh, I should have said the motor mouth thing. This show on 90.3 WHPC is brought to you by Car Star Celebrity Chase Collision with two locations in Liberty and Ocean Side who remind you that New York state law says you always have the right to choose which shop will fix your car. 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We just keep you hanging on and some of you keep coming back, so as long as you're coming back, we'll keep you hanging on and then we'll do that and you know what, Isaac from Arizona said here in Chassis John is one of the highlights of his week when I play a little drop from John. I happen to agree. Yes, the tips are not to a friend who is well missed. Yes, we did something, this is just a little outside of what I was teasing before. We made history, I think we made some, well in our group, we made a little bit of internet kind of history. Thursday night, we're doing playing traffic, right? Right. It's a little bit of a so tail end. Yeah, yeah. And the Republican, the R&C shook my head a lot. Sure. So the RNC was on, they were doing their thing and Brian was watching a little bit. We signed off and then you know, each of us wanted to see Isaac and Brian and myself wanted to see what was going on. So we all kind of switched on our TVs. We watched TV together while we were on the meeting together. So we're all sitting there watching on TVs. And the thing we found out was Brian and I had about the same, the feed about the same time on both East Coast, but Isaac and Arizona was like a minute or more behind. Oh, wow. It was a lag. So I said, yeah, they put you guys on the, on the lake because they know how you are Arizona and so on. But it was funny because something they would say something that was good or funny and then we would like drop it on like, oh, well, you'll hear about that in about a minute. Don't worry. So I was asking Brian to pass the popcorn and all the funny things. It was kind of funny. We just sat and watched TV together. You know, what have you ever done that with your buddies on a computer? No. Never. Speaking of which, I saw Isaac had a motor mouth radio t-shirt. I thought that was hysterical. Yeah. I was like, ah, how did you get that from? That was a while ago. I think I told you I was cleaning out one of the closets and found a bunch of some of the old shirts. Didn't have many, but you know, he had asked one. So I sent them out one. I said, yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, I know. That was pretty cool. Yeah. That was awesome. That was a history. Wow. Very cool. I just let you know we're still, we're open for a few thumbs are still operating context us here. Motor mouth radio, 203-670-4127. I always say be like, not go man Brian. Right. Exactly. So let me tell you what's changed me auto-motively. Oh gosh, finally come to your senses, whatever it is. I don't know what it is. I've said this for a while where my wife is concerned. But you know, I kind of like it too. This week we had two gas tanks out at Bill Carberry's shop, right? We had the one from the 442, we had the one from the Colony Park wagon. All right. The wagon. Yes. So it was time for them to be picked up. So my guest, he says, listen, would you mind running out and picking up the gas tanks? So I instantly became Arnie Cunningham. You know, now I'm Arnie Cunningham because well, yesterday I was. So Friday, he says, why don't you do this? Take. Do you have a blue '74 caddy coop to go? No, but I. It took a second to think to associate the name with the car. Okay. Okay. I thought the car was red. I thought that caddy was red. Well, whatever. Okay. The main car was red. Well, I know that. No, no, no. Scrap the caddy. Scrap the caddy. Right. Lord. Blue. White top white guy. Mike system, why don't we do this? Take my truck and pick the tanks up and keep my truck overnight. I'll keep yours. He's going to, he hung on to the FJ. He says, and then Saturday, you know, we'll meet back at the shop and we'll make the exchange again and all that. And I said, okay, that's good. That's fine. That's, we can do that. So Kevin and I did. We took Mike's truck. It's the new Maverick that he has. Oh. It's a new Ford pickup truck. And it's a new Ford hybrid pickup truck. Oh, really? So let me tell you, let me tell you something. Okay. This, what I've always said, my wife is the typical hybrid driver. She should have the hybrid. They designed them for her. Well, the truck had like three quarters of a tank of gas in it. And as we drove, that needle didn't move. But you can see there's another needle that you think is a tack, but it shows you going from engine power to battery power. So as you like let off the gas, you can get into the green. So you really start like playing with, with driving, you know, to keep it in the green regenerative braking. Let me tell you something. We drove, we ended up taking ocean Parkway out, but we got stuck out by the, by the salt check. The troopers had the roads shut down. We literally had to get off the road, come all the way back to the want to a Parkway to take sunrise highway all the way out to Iceland. I mean, it was a total and we were in traffic sitting there doing nothing and we had the AC on still. We made that whole trip, came back, made another stop in Massapequa. That night I took my wife out for a quick little drive just to show her what was going on. It's funny. I said, we get in the truck. I said, all right, here you go. I said, I'm going to get. I'll start it. It has a key. You put the key in the ignition and you turn it to start. And then you get a display that says, okay, ready to drive. So she's like, what? What happened? I was like, what? She was, I didn't hear anything. I said, it won't. I put it in drive and we took off. I don't know why you have to do this thing. It's like simulating, starting, but it's silent. There's no noise. I could see myself having one of these trucks. This thing didn't use any gas and it was comfortable, very comfortable to drive. It's a smaller size. The Maverick isn't a big pickup, but I don't need a big pickup anyway. I'm even talking about the cars. I think a car would be, you know, beneficial. So I've crossed over to that hybrid, not the EV side, but to the hybrid side. And it really took driving one. The brakes were the most phenomenally responsive brakes I've felt in my life. Not even the F1 car I drove had better brakes than this. Let me tell you, yeah, something to be checked out. And I think it's going to be in the future. I believe it. I'm with you 100% on it. We agree on this as monumental in itself. But my cousin, Pat and Gladys have a Ford Fusion. Okay. A 2021, I think it is. And I have driven that car with the same impression that you have. It drove really well. It was barely quick. It was surprisingly quick for what it is. And yeah, it was comfortable. The brakes were great watching the gauge as well, keeping it in the green. It was an event. And yes, I can agree with you too. I have a wife that probably does the same sort of commuting and driving as yours. Everything around here is 10 or 15 minutes away. So you're always going 10 or 15 minutes in the vehicle, shutting it off, starting it up and coming 10 or 15 minutes back. It's always the case, no matter where we are in a 360 degree range, you can find everything you need here within 15, 20 minutes tops. So yeah, is that good for a regular internal combustion engine? Not really. It's, you're still keeping it cold all the time. I mean, it does warm up, but it's not, you got to get them on the highway every once in a while, not so with the hybrid. So yes, I can agree with you. I think we both, our wives both do have the same driving lifestyle. I mean, I can use it and I want to look into this because we, Kevin and I were talking yesterday, we looked at it over and said, I know that the EVs have specific tires that are designed for the higher mileage and well, and if you don't replace, they weigh so much. The EV weighs almost double the amount of a regular car. If you don't replace them with the specifically rated tires, you won't get the range that you would get. Now, I wonder if the high bridge have also have it, it didn't look like anything special to me that I was seeing. I wonder if they do. I don't know. Things I want to look into that I'm not aware of so, you know, but I was really surprised. I will say the only thing I couldn't, I can't agree with because I really didn't test it was this thing didn't feel overly peppy to me, but I wasn't really hitting that gas hard. I found myself trying to like really be conservative, you know, go the other way. And I used to cruise, cruise control on the highway, set it at 60 and just kind of cruised and that was that, you know, where I was like to tell my FJ is a little more jumpy off the line that car will the FJ even be a big thing that it is is a little more, you know, aggressive off the line. But other than that, I mean, I don't think I'd be so even if I had a trade off the short entrance merge from want to heaven and want to a sudden state Parkway, you know, you gotta be able to hit 60 in like three seconds, even about a trade that off, you know, for the other the other positives, I think it would be a worthwhile trade off. I really do so I agree with you. I think the thing that probably I would question is if you do eventually venture off the island where you find where you go and live someplace like you want more remote. I'm not sure how a car like that or a truck like that will. I'm hoping that you're going to get like over 40 miles to a gallon and and nothing will change. I saw on the display, it was there was a 38.5 mile per gallon number up there. That's probably Mike's average, you know, and and I think I can out mile Mike. I think I do because I know his driving style and I think, you know, you know, and I said to him, you know, because when I returned it to I came back, I came into the office yesterday morning and I said, I had the keys, I said, all right, are you cutting him reporting for duty? I'm like, yeah, I got the boss's caddy outside with the pots in it. I was like, that's what I said. That's what that came in. Yeah, exactly. And you're not going to be there for a second. I'm like, already cutting him. Yeah. At first I was thinking Richie cutting him. He's cutting already. Oh, yeah. Christine. Yes. No, he's a month's runner for a darn Alex. I guess one of those caddy. I don't know nothing about it. All of a sudden he tends to go a little little milk toast. You know, me while he was Mr. Tough guy. So let's go back to the phones here. Let's hit the button. Say hi. You're on the motor mouths. Ray, Chris. Hey, Glenn. What's up, Glenn? How are you? Hey, Glenn. I thought maybe you were thinking of an EV conversion on something. No. No, no, no, no, no. You have an extra gas motor laying around. Well, maybe in the Fiat, you know, that would be a cool conversion. Yeah. It's a small car. Wouldn't need a big battery. Yeah. Yeah. It could happen. But yeah, these new cars, I wouldn't know what to do. Well, like you say, is it on? Right. Are we going? Yeah. And you do kind of get used to it fast. But the thing that when I brought it back and, you know, I was telling Mike my story, he said, wow. He goes, I got to tell you, you know, driving that FJ, he goes, it's like being in a Hummer. And he's right because it really is designed like a Hummer. Everything is big. A black square. A bigger vehicle. Taller. But like I told him, I said, knowing that that thing gets such atrocious gas mileage, I was very conscious of how I drive it. And I drive it very gently. And I found out just by coasting more, this is how the hybrid gets the better mileage. If you coast to the light, you see that thing going to green. Well, it works with a gas vehicle too. If you don't have regenerative braking, but if you break a little later, you know, because you've scrubbed those people. I actually got that. I've actually got 19 out of that FJ on the, you know, just combination driving, which is unheard of. Well, yeah, the bigger the vehicle, these sport utilities are never known for great gas mileage or my V8 Explorer, you know, you're expecting under 10. Sure. That's a given. This thing is good for like 15, 16 all day, the FJ. If I drive it, if I drive it averagely, I have gotten it up a little higher. But so like I said, I could, you know, I could do well with a hybrid, I think, because I'm already in that mindset, but, but whatever, it was, it was a cool experiment. I was glad to have the opportunity to spend some time. Maybe next, maybe next time I go away, maybe that's where I'll look to rent, see if I could rent one. Right. You can never know. It's always like, could, could I rent and borrow it? Right. I would be apprehensive based on distance. Well, it does have a gas. It does have a gas motor glens. So you can fill it. Okay. Right. It's a hybrid. It's not an EV. It's got both. Right. I would be traveling and then sitting at like a rest stop and like, what are we going to do here for a half plus or 45 minutes? For a charge. I would lose my mind. Right. We got to get back on the doors. Exactly. Yeah. No, I know. But that's my lament as well. I know. This is waiting to charge your EV. Yeah. And I've seen folks doing it and there's like two charging stations and I don't even stop for gas. Sometimes I just usually quick bite to eat or the restroom and I'm like, they're still there. I got to tell you, last two trips we made to North Carolina, I drove straight through. You know, it was like, that's it. 10. Yeah. Do it. Yeah. I'd usually stop to take a stretch break, whatever a quick break or, yeah, get out of the car for a bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we had to stop for gas. So stop for gas. But literally it was like gas. You walk to and from the office, you're back in the car, you're driving again. It's like, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can't say that would be in my wheelhouse to have a strict EV, but you don't know what that I, and all I could say is going forward, I hope we have choices no matter what. Right. Like not, I'd say all EVs were, I think we will and we'll constantly mess with gas engines and trying to make them run better or at least in our lifetime. Yeah. So automakers know that right now the EV thing is not going to fly, and the way to go is the hybrid, which we already have, you know, and develop that a little more. Yeah. It's... Get me down, yeah. Get me down, yeah. Get me down, yeah. So listen, did you get your windshield wipers working any better on the Camaro? Yeah. So, you know, it's funny, that video, those wipers haven't moved in 20 plus years or more. Wow. And, and I said, I've got to fix this and that's, well, I did what I did. And I said, well, wait a second. I mean, I found a good forum and I checked the motor and it says, oh, wow, the motor works. So I think I told you, I tried to, tried to take the switch apart and it's like that Bakelite material kind of came apart on me and then it cracked it and she says, I can't fix this. No. So I ordered another one, got it through summit. I put it in and it doesn't work and I said, this stinks. Oh. Well, I never put any of the connectors back on the motor. Oh. Half of it. Yeah. So under the hood. Yeah. It's great. Sitting a kick in myself. Oh, that worked for nothing. But so I do what I do and I saw and I go back under the dash. You know, the dash is messed up. It's everything's cracked. It's old. It's so I connected and I says, all right, now it should work. It doesn't work. So I brought a ground to the actual switch itself, not to the wiring. Right. I said, I don't think it needs to be grounded, but maybe. So the body of the switch. Yes. Okay. That's what I wanted to ask you. I said, I don't know what was there, can't recall and underneath the dash looks pretty bad. Don't look under theirs. Just that point. So anyway, and sure enough, it worked. And that was that video I took. I said, well, I can't believe I got. Where's your wipers? Let's drive in the rain, but we'll fast forward to not working yet because I have to fix that whole portion. It's all cut up and broken and the attachment points, they're gone. Right. So I either got a lay on my back and get under there and fix it right or maybe modify it somehow. But when I brought the ground to the body of the switch is when it worked. And the reason that works is because your switch mounts into a metal dash and that's when the ground is made. Right. And I was wondering, I said, I wonder if that was the case. So I was going to take it all apart. And I said, you know, you're getting into more than you need to do right now. I don't want to do that because here and there, although it's been hot, I do like to drive the car. Right. And then I says, well, let's wait on this. I know it works. So I'll get to it another day and I easily can then ground it. Right. Wow. It's just, well, you know, but anyway, and then cleaning up all my stuff, I found another wipe of motor. I says, well, that's good to keep. Oh, good. And all of my wife wants me to throw all this stuff out. And I said, no, we don't throw car ones out. I know. No, don't throw them out. Especially for a car you currently have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, and I said, I have that wipe of motor. And I said, I don't know where it came from. What, you know, was it broken? Was it not? Who knows? Well, give it a test. Yeah. Bench test. We're on a bench. Right. Grab a grip, grab a little battery, connect it, make your own little wire connectors. Sure. Right. That's, it's all stuff to fix. But that was pretty impressive. I was not going to finally got one thing off my list. I said, not like that. I don't have a direction wherever that car is going. It's just go where it goes. Yeah. Yeah. You're following it. You're following it through its life. Yeah. And I'm not going to, it's not perfect. Like you were talking about aligned panels and, right, I'm in that man aligned club. And it's kind of funny because both of you guys cause a red and the red is what attracts people looking at it. So you can look past other things because you don't, it doesn't have to be perfect. Your call looks great now with the new wheels. Yeah. The wheels make it phenomenal, you know, but you could put your fingers through some of the, the body panels, the gaps are so big and all who can't just drive it. And I would rather go look at drivers all day long than show cars because the drivers are the ones that are built and, and you know, maintained by the owners and not the, there's a story. You were talking about like the, a king did dial build. I think I would be in awe of a, of a true, like it's, like you say, it's all work. I, I don't think that would be the car for me. Yeah, it would be like, well, what happens if I dented or smashed up? I think I would be really, I'd say, no, take that back. I'll take the beater over there. This car is a Camaro. So, you know, I Glenn, he's supposed to have an open house. It was supposed to be this summer. I thought it was supposed to happen already and it hasn't because I would have heard about it. But when it does, I'll let you know what the date is. And it's right up here. It's just right in like new Hyde Park, you know, take a drive up and check it out. That's a nice cars. Real nice stuff. With always good seeing some cool stuff, I've been trying to follow what you're doing or that night we went out. That was pretty cool too. Right. Yeah. There's so much, you know, great cars out there, great drivers, and stuff that folks put together, these guys and, and ladies too, you know, good, good builders and absolutely good to see. So, I always want to see what's up and keep on doing my thing and enjoy the day and talk soon. Okay, Glenn, talk to you soon, brother. Thanks. Always a pleasure, Glenn. It's a lot. Be safe. All right. That was. So Joe, the undertaker just called just texted us at 203-670-4127. He was throwing his spin on the hybrids and the electric cars. He says he just heard tire and brake particles create more pollution than internal combustion engines. He said also a guy he knew tried to get a replacement battery for his hybrid. There weren't any in the country and had to get shipped from looks like he said the shipping from another country didn't say where would cost more than the new car. Yeah. That's something you got to be afraid of. And he's right. You know, every day when you hit those brakes, there is more brake particulate. And I saw it when we went to Indiana, my buddy Chris and Michael went to Indiana to pick up his wagon project. We pulled into this truck stop and I walked out and my job was to clean the windshield on the truck. And a breeze came by and what did I see? But this black cloud just came across and it was, it was rubber or for tires. Probably all these trucks that just, it was out on the road that goes up in the air. People breathe it. It's real. Sure. What else is real is the, is the bottom of the, is the top of the hour again. You know what that means? Kim is here. She's going to do her show Thunder Road, best of spring steam in the band and everybody can enjoy that. It means we got to get the heck out of here and I'm going to go home and make some AC crimping crimps connectors for my time. Oh yeah. It sounds like fun. So for Chris, it's a regular arena. We'll be back next week with more more than out of the area. We may have just to call Anthony with us next week. We'll see. Chris, what am I telling folks out in the parking lot? Don't follow us home especially if you have an EV because I can outrun you in the FJ. Right. All right. See you next week. 90.3 WHPC. See you. Thank you both for listening. See you. Bye. (upbeat music)