In this episode of Ron Ananian, The Car Dr., Ron is discussing various topics centered around cars, specifically older models like the 1938 Chevy Deluxe. The exchange features a mix of storytelling and technical car discussions. Here’s a summary of the key points:
Car Nostalgia and Road Trips:
Car Modifications and Maintenance:
Car Technology and the Impact of Innovation:
Tire Issues and Solutions:
Car Memories and the Importance of Mechanical Knowledge:
Concerns About Dash Cams in Cars:
Throughout the conversation, there's a sense of camaraderie and nostalgia for older cars, mixed with practical advice on maintenance, modifications, and understanding the historical context of automotive technology.
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You know, I have one hundred things I want to talk to you about this hour, But Tom says, we have a lot of phone calls, so let's get right to the calls. I can do my monologue and stuff either later or next week or in another lifetime. Let's let's go over and talk to Bill and Iowa. Always a pleasure, Bill thirty eight Chevy Deluxe, And how can I help you today? What's on your mind?
Hey? I just want to thank you for being on the air on Well. You're very welcome, sir, joh, You're tremendous.
Thank you, sir, thank you. It's a pleasure to We did.
Our famous car crews to see the colors on the Loose Hills in Iowa, which is east of the Missouri River, north of Interstate eighty. We did two hundred miles and had about fifty to sixty cars and we never got on the interstate. And I drove my thirty eight on it and she ran good. I put brand new radio tires on it this summer. I had the old bias on them for thirty years.
Wow.
And that made it drive a lot nicer. But the wind is an irritation because my sector is so bad. Yeah, I need to put a whole new steering sector in. But I don't, you know, it's you know, it's.
Funny I think about it. The difference between old cars and you know, older cars and newer cars is driving that thirty eight Deluxe. Can you imagine driving that thirty eight Chevy Deluxe cross country back in the day? Right, right? I know it's kind of funny, right, you know, you think about it. How long would it take? And you know is that a two week ride? What's top speed on that thirty eight Deluxe? Bill?
Well, we drove it to California in night teen sixty five to Long Beach. I had a sister that was teaching school, right, and me and another buddy drove that the route sixty six and come into Pasadonia down by San Diego. And what makes me appreciate the car is I drove those Palats roads in La where that fire was is and I drove that car on those roads on the weekends just for Bordom, right, And I can't imagine them people that are going through that. It's just an unimaginable How long did it take you?
How long did it take you to drive from Iowa to California back in the.
Day, Well, we drove about seventy sixty. We drove about eighty miles a day, and we stopped at a college friend in New Mexico and then went on up through. It took us two nights and three days. Yeah, is what it took to get there.
What's top speed on that thirty eighth J Well?
Okay, I had two to one barrel Rochester carburetors on it on an end to take an aluminum intake manifold, and I got Corvette headers on it, and we cruised that sucker at seventy mile an hour back there on Route sixty six, and we still had some to go because them two carburetors made that unimaginable. Because it was a two thirty five sixth cylinder Chevrolet fifty six. That's the motor that's still in it today. I just run one carburetor on it today because it's just simpler. I'm a simple, simple, old part. I'm going to be eighty one in twenty twenty five.
Hey, you know what simple as good look? You ever look inside? You know to me, older cars are supposed to be very mechanical. You ever look inside my my fifty five Chevy, my hot rod as I call it. It's all mechanical, its original gauges, it's original up there's very little modern stuff in it. You know, it's still a sickle four barrel carburetor. You know, it's probably got headers and aluminum heads and a few other things we won't talk about. But the idea is, you know, to me, older cars are really supposed to be mechanical and and that's that's the fun part about it, you know, and you get the tinker and you get to adjust. And the only problem is, back in sixty five, when you drove that thirty eight to California, if it broke down, you could probably somewhere on the side of the road get parts or fix it out of a out of a toolbox. Today there's just there's nothing readily available anywhere nobody. You know. Could you imagine walking into a major parts store chain and you know, you need a fan belt for your for your thirty eight Chevy Deluxe with a hot rotted engine in it, And the first question they're gonna ask you is your make model an engine? And you're gonna laugh at them, Well, it's a thirty eight Chevy, you know, it's a thirty eight Chevy with a fifty six Corvette engine or a fifty three fifty four Corvette engine. And if they're gonna look at you like what you know, they're they're they're they're gonna be lost.
So the most technology that I've got in this car today is we eliminated the floor starter that was in those original cars. And I have a chrome push button under the day and that starts my vehicle because we got a wired twelve volts and runs the regular Chevrolet starter on it with the you know Dell Co starter with the with the everything, the most technologies in that car, and that's a lot.
Listen, a little puss button to have a push button, to have a push button start in the thirties is a lot of technology. You know, when the twenties cars were still hand crank.
And oh yeah, see this hasn't had a four starter in it. Right my side the accelerator, you could run your foot on the button, pushed down on it and it would accivate the manual starter and then you was right there with your your foot to accelerate the increase.
You know, you think about I'll close with this thought, I wonder, I look at older cars and I think what it took to drive them physically. So now we've created cars that you can do literally one hundred miles an hour down the road with the air conditioning on. And I'm not advocating anybody do this, but you can right one finger on the wheel, just coasting along. Now we've created all these cars that cost one hundred thousand dollars to do that, and then we spend all this money. Then we spend all this money to go to a gym to get into shape. Whereas if you if everybody drove older cars without power steering and power brakes, we'd all be in shape because the muscles you needed to turn steering wheels and move gear shift levers in the coordination factor, nobody would have time to talk on a phone if we were driving an older car. You know, it's just just a very different way.
I got air conditioning in this. You realize my air conditioner is a little lover that opens in front of the windshield before the herd starts. Yep, yeah, three position, yep, that's my air conditioning.
Yeah.
We used to call that five and fifty five inches fifty miles an hour, and uh, you know that's that's how it worked. Yeah, So Bill, always a pleasure, sir.
Hey, Yeah, it was nice measuring with you. I've called you so many years and I got your number. We'll keep in touch and I appreciate your program every week.
Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir. You'll be well. I appreciate you old cars. I was gonna tell Bill the story. Anybody know where anybody know where the electric starter actually came from. It was in the twenties and all cars were hand crank and somebody so the guy who designed the electric starter did so because his best friend hand cranked his car, broke his arm right because the engine kicked back, and the fella, and the way the story goes, the fella died in a hospital a couple of days later from a blood infection, and the gentleman that designed the electric starter felt that nobody should have to go through that, so he created the electric starter and it revolutionized the industry. Can you imagine the biggest news out of Detroit in the late twenties early thirties was your car will have an electric starter on it. And that was a big deal. That was a very big deal. So just technology sure has come a long way. We're not going to see thirty eight Chevy technology anytime soon. Eight five five, five six zero nine nine zero zero should point out that is the twenty four to seven phone number for those of you that might be new to this show. Eight five five six zero nine nine zero zero. Again, that phone number is twenty four seven. What do we mean by that? You can call that phone number eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero, leave a message. We are live on the air on the network Saturdays two to four pm Eastern time. You can call that eight five to five number, leave a message and we will call you back and get you either get you in Q for the next live broadcast, or address your question and talk to you via email. So whatever you want to do, but by all means, get in on the eight five to five five six zero nine nine zero zero phone number. I'm running any in the car doctor, I'll be back right after this.
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Hey, let's get over and talk to Mike and Iowa Gee, I was coming in real strong today. Some questions on a tract retire Mike. Welcome to the car doctor, Sir how can I help good after?
You know? Ron, Yes, sir, glad to talk to you. You me too, Yeah, I would listening to that guy with that thirty eight. My brother and I had a thirty eight Master Deluxe many years ago.
Oh, that's funny. So there were two in Iowa.
Yeah, geez, where did I switch over to Cords Mustang? So I'm a Mustang guy, but cool? I have to John DearS and I have several John there two cylinders. I show them, and also you in my field and so forth. But anyway, I have one, got a front tire, got a slow leaks and the only leaks really slow in the winter time, summertime. It doesn't seem to go down, okay, And I know it's now hidden of the day it's down, and I pumped it up. It takes about a month for it to kind of go down leak pressure and only in the cold. So what's that product you guys are talking about here? I think a week or two ago. That's that's I don't know, wetter than than soap, because I use soap and water. It does have a tube. I've had it apart, but I cannot find that leak well, cried the valves them.
If if you take that tube out and stick it in a water tank, there's no leak.
That's correct.
So that's I got to tell you, that's that's odd. I'm gonna say, uh, I would pay very special attention even though you put a core in it. You know where the valve stem is. I'm going to pay very special attention to the core. The stuff I was talking about is a product available from a company called tech Tire, and it's it's I call it soapy soap, but it it magnifies air leaks and creates soap bubbles one hundred times to that of what you would normally see. So it's just more than just it's just more than soapy water. But you know, let's face it, in a tube. You know, if I put if I inflated that tube with air and stuck it in the bathtub, for lack of a better way to do it, don't do it when mama's home. He's working on that tractor. Again. I can tell it's in the bathroom. You know, maybe you'll see maybe you'll see bubbles there.
You know.
I like a water tank that you know, a water tank tells me all it's to me it's the only thing that doesn't lie. You know, it's it's real. It's always going to give you accurate information. But I would pay special attention to the valve seat to see, you know, could deceit be hammered such that you know when it's cold it's going to be contracted and allows a small leak. There's also a product from Berryman. Go out to the Berremanproducts dot com website. There's a and I haven't used it in a while. It's this funny looking stuff in a pink bottle. I can't think of any way to describe it. And what it does is it will. It will screw on to the end of the tire valve stem and it coats the inside of the tire in the wheel with like a ceilerdge. It self seals you roll it around and it creates this sort of a liquid membrane. I don't know that it works in tubes. I'd have to read the bottle in the instructions, but it's worth a shot to see and that might seal the whole thing from the inside. But let me ask you this question. If it's a tubed tire, why don't we just try a different tube.
That's what I was going to say. I'm out ready just to put a new tube in it. Right, they're probably forty bucks or something like that. Right, that's what I just said. What I called you, I thought, well, I just put a new tube in it because I've tried the new core and I just can't find this leak, no bubbling and water, right, And I just thought, well it just.
Yeah, just it just might be easier, you know, for that for that matter of fact. But that's that is a good one. I enjoy things like that. That's what we call. That tire tube is gonna be good for the summer swing right when you go swimming. Uh, you know, so you just wanted to talk to me, I understand.
So yeah, yeah, that's true. That third eight brought old memories. And I couldn't win to a Mustang. I'm a Mustang guy, and I got several of those and so but yeah, I enjoyed listening to your show.
Thank you, sir for having well, thank you, sir. You know that's what old cars do. Old cars generate memories. It's funny. I've never had anybody call me up and say, boy, that guy was talking about his twenty eighteen Toyota. I had one of those. You know, it's always the older car. It's always that, you know, I had this Mustang in high school, I had this thirty eight Chevy. I drove across country. It was always the great adventures that that cars be got. I think, And I have a fifty fifty five and I have a seventy two Money Carlo, and you know.
It's I had. My first car was a fifty sixty two door post sixty five three speed on the tree.
Stuff just stuff just takes your breath away.
Yeah, yeah, of course, of course I kind of destroyed that well.
But you know what hot rotting the age I grew up in, and I often think about this, you know, where are the mechanics of today? Where are the technicians of today? And they're out there. It's just a different breed, it's a different animal. It It boggles my mind when I start talking to a new tech and we start talking about fuel systems and we bring up carburetors and they've never seen one, uh, you know, and I can't imagine. I just it's just so foreign to me. But you know, I was fortunate in my generation. We were fortunate I think we came up with just the right time. We We came at the tail end of the muscle car era and everything was mechanical. And I think I still think to be a good technician, you need to have a good mechanical background. That's the foundation that a lot of them missed today, because it teaches you common sense, and it does. It will teach common sense, It will bring out the thought process, It will bring out a diagnostic routine, which so many of the texts today need. You know, I consider it a personal obligation now as I'm you know, I'm older and I'm not going anywhere, but you know, I want to impart some of what I've learned and uh, you know to this next generation because it will help them.
Yeah, don't teach anymore. They used to shop and mechanic classes. So these have all kinds of stuff to learn, basics about cars, about wood work. Right, you got rid all of that here twenty years ago.
You know what I you know what I think about, Mike, I think about I think about the military. How does the military make a good soldier a good a good military you know, how do they because they groom them, they teach them the basics, all right. And it may not be anything related to shooting a gun. It may be waking up on time, dressing on time, washing on time, shaving on time, brushing teeth. You know the basics, right, And I think with mechanics, yeah, they need the basics. They need they need the basics, They need the discipline, they need the regimentation, because that's what auto repair is all about. It's doing the same thing on a consistent basis. You know, I'll never forget my friend already already's gone fifteen years now, when he once said to me, we talked about bowling bowling. Already was a bowling officionado, and he said to me, you know how to bowl a perfect game? He said, you do the same thing every frame, ten frames in a row, and you'll be perfect. And I said, yeah, it's like fixing cars. You do the same thing every time and you'll be perfect. He goes, yeah, you just got to transfer that over to order repair and not bold. So I never forgot that. It was very very sharp words of wisdom. Mike, A pleasure. I enjoy the chat. You'll be well out there, Iowa way, I'm ronning any in the car. Doctor I'm coming back right after this don't go away, and we are dancing along this hour running Annie in the Car Doctor Here at eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero, the Card Doctor's twenty four to seven phone number. Call leave a message. We'll get you in the next live cueue. You can also call the eight five five five zero nine nine zero zero phone number Saturdays two to four pm Eastern Time. That's when the show is live on the network, So regardless of when you hear it, and you're part of the country or you're part of the world, you can catch it there and we're in studio two to four Eastern and two to four pm Eastern time. Will be glad to talk to you about your car problem and help solve it. Let's get over to the phones again. Let's go over to Tom and Mass twenty three super roof Forrester. What's going on, Tom? How can I help?
Hey?
Ron, thanks for checking my college. Yeah, sir, really nothing to do with a car. It's a car dealership kind of a legal question. When I bring my car in for service, they unclogged the dash cam. Okay, have you ever heard of that? Or is it legal?
Even I'm not a lawyer, Tom, So, I don't know what the legality of it is. I do it. Also, I'll tell you why I do it, all right. I don't like dash cams. I don't like dash cams. I don't like vehicle tracking devices that you plug into the OBD two port. And I'll tell you why, all right. And I think it's a great question. I think it's something that should that you know, nobody's ever addressed or brought up to me in all the years on radio now now thirty four that we're talking about this. I don't like cameras in the shop. I'm concern where's that information going. I don't need anybody to know what I have in the shop. It's none of their business. As Mom would say, you know, I also don't know if the cameras recording audio. Imagine I'm on a private phone call and somebody's recording at least a half they can hear. Is that an invasion of my privacy?
You know?
So that's an issue. You know, I would ask you, why do you want a camera in the dealership? What are you worried about?
It's not that per se. A matter of fact, one time, when I was coming out of there, someone cut off in front of me. I missed them by inches, and I'm thinking, thank god, I have a camera and I went to look at it and it's still unplugged. They didn't even plug.
It back in.
See, that's a mistake. That's wrong. That that that should be done. We'll do that, you know. The other thing. The other thing I like to do is see now that's a valid point to me. The other thing I will do all so is if there's you know, there's variations on it out there from the phone company, from insurance companies. The dongle that plugs into the OBD two ports, so the insurance company or the phone company can relay it to the insurance company and tell them what your driving habits are. Imagine, imagine the mechanic you know, gets the car and the complaint says car has lack of power. Well, one of the tests I do is something called volumetric efficiency, where from a ten mile an hour roll, I will put the foot my foot all the way to the floor to a heart acceleration up until about sixty sixty five miles an hour a hard pull. Could you imagine if your insurance company is used to seeing you around town doing thirty thirty five miles an hour, and I go out to the highway and floor it, and you know, you know, all of a sudden, they're like, geez, what's what's what's going on with Tommy's driving like a wild man?
Uh?
You know, maybe that's so. You know, it's all this stuff is good up to a point, but it becomes comme if if you feel the need to track your mechanic, you know, for whatever reason, oh maybe it's the wrong mechanic.
I think.
I think there's a lot of things a good repair shop can do to display and show trust back and forth. And I think if you feel compelled that you have to track them, you know, that's a that's an issue. By the same token, I think if they unplug it when it comes in, they should have the courtesy to plug it back in. But you see, maybe I'm old school tom To me, that's just common sense. We will take note of radio station presets. We will take note of where the driver's seat is. You know, sometimes we get a four foot ten mom come in, drops her car off. I'm five foot ten. You know, the seat's got to come way back, and you know, and the reason I will try to put the seat back approximately if I can't put it exact, if it's not a memorized setting is because then inevitably they come back into the office and I'm off doing something else, and I'll have to go out there to just the seat for him. Because a lot of people don't know where the power seat button is anymore. You know that happens, and you know, if it's one if it's one driver, you know, they're they're just used to getting in the car and going. They set the seat, they set the mirrors, and it's so I agree with you one hundred percent common courtesy. Plug the camera back in. I don't think it needs to be plugged in when it's inside the shop. I think that's you know, I think that's an invasion of privacy for a lot of reasons. I don't know what the legality of it is, but I just I just don't condone it. So, you know, I don't know if that I don't know.
If that helps our answers.
I can't find Bill Handle on the lot anymore. In the radio, Yeah, I you know I would remember him, but.
Oh sure, yeah, you know I would. I would maybe, And I think I think the answer is going to be what's Massachusetts law? Because I think it's going to vary by state, you know, I think it's I think it's the same thing. You know, New Jersey is a I think a New Jersey you can record a phone call without anybody knowing it. But in New York both parties have to know or something like that. It's a whole and I don't want to don't don't send me emails on this, folks. I'm just telling you as an example. Uh, you know, it's it's it's every state as different, is my point. So, you know, just just something to be aware of, all right, kiddo.
Ye, thank you, You're very.
Welcome, sir. Happy to have you, and thank you for the question. Yeah, I want to repair is tough, and you know, and by the same token, you know, if you want to see a video of how I fix cars, get out to my YouTube channel. All right, you know it's it's and then the other side of that is, you know, and I didn't I didn't talk to him about this. But sometimes we're looking at a particular weird operating characteristic of a vehicle, and sometimes those dongles that go into OBD two diagnostic port can have an effect on how the vehicle operates, because that was never meant to be a tracking device, so you know that affects operation. Anyway, Let's wander over real quick. Let's get started, and then we'll take a break and probably come back. Let's go to Bruce in Virginia. Oh, one Honda Odyssey. Bruce, what's going on?
Hey?
Ron?
How are you okay? Sir? How can I help?
Yeah? Yeah, it took a couple of weeks ago. You send me a book. I just want I got the book. I appreciate it.
Oh, you're very welcome. You're very welcome, and.
Yeah, and I just want to give you an update. You said called, like, yeah, do you remember I called? I wouldn't call off and I tried many places you couldn't get fixed. So I decided to, you know, just use it once in a while, like, uh, because I had the money and I didn't have any money to fix it. Sure, yeah, I was gonna bet Uh you know that the day I talked to you a couple of weeks ago. I want to because I started to call every two three days. A couple of days go bad, it won't die, So I want to start a car. It was completely dead. Nothing would click or like that. So at that time I met the de C and I said, that's it. I'm done with this car. Every time I fixed something something else going on. So I haven't done because I had the money and I'm kind of unemployed, fixed income persecute.
Right, So what's the end result, kiddo? I need, I need a question. What's the end result?
Yeah, I just want to see. I just want to I'm going to take it to a metal place and get it of it because I spend all my money and energy in that one. And I can't because recently I was I lead in my car for what I recently moved to this place by the government housing. I can't even focus in my fixing a place. Who you know, uh nothing. I just spent all my money and energy in the car. I just I just wonder what you think. I just want to get it off the car and save them.
Well, I think I think if you're at the point where you're putting more money, good money after bed and if I remember right, this is a higher mileage, you know, almost twenty five year old odyssey. Uh you know, I think if you're at the point where you're spending more more money on the vehicle than you can afford. And if it's just one endless problem after the next, then yeah, replacing it and setting up a budget. You know, at least now in this modern age, we have uber and we have other ways to get around, and then working towards a replacement vehicle, I think you're better off with that. As much of a struggle as that might be. You'll still have expense, but it'll be fixed expense on a regular basis. If you plan your day right and you go through a proper routine. I think that's a better way to approach it, because sometimes if a vehicle becomes, you know, an endless stream and it's overwhelming, I think getting out of it is better off than trying to stay in it. Good luck to you, Bruce. I appreciate the call, and I hope all things work out for you. God bless. I'm running any in the card doctor. I'll be back right after this. Hey, running hard, running late, running Anie in the card doctor. Let's get some of these done. Jim Virginia three expedition, what's going on?
Rollan?
The reason I'm calling is my expedition has that two hundred and twenty two thousand miles on it just great, yep, And I'm getting a chattering noise from the front of the engine. And I've talked to a couple of mechanics and they tell me it's the timing chain, and one guy says it's the timing chain guides. So my question is how serious is this problem and exactly what are the guides?
Okay five four or four to six? Which engine?
It's the four six?
Okay four six, So you know, first of all, I mean, has anybody tried to diagnose this before we go down the path of what it could have should have? All right? You know, take the serpentine belt off. If you start it without the belt on, does it still make the noise?
One guy did check that, and he also checked the tightener for the belt, and it still kept making the noise.
So without the belt, without the belt on, the on the engine. He started it without the belt on the engine, and it still makes the noise.
No, he did not take the belt off. Okay, all he did was all he did was take the the tightener and take that out of the out of the picture and start the engine.
Well, I don't know how he would take it out of the picture if he didn't take the belt off. My point is, there's four or five rotating objects, right, power steering pump, ac compressor, belt, idler pretension or idler water pump. Why why wouldn't we just take the belt off. It'll take fifteen minutes start it up. If it still makes the noise, we know we've eliminated five things.
Well, all he did was he took a screwdriver or something and just release that from tightening the belt up and pushed the other way.
All right, Well where the police where? The police still rotating?
I did not see all of them watching him do it, all right.
So rather than beat the horse dead, let's just say, let's take the belt off. Let's go on an assumption. It's a timing chain. A timing chain guide is a nylon guide that helps keep the timing chain on track. Think about a bicycle, right as the chain rolls around the sprockets. It's the metal guide. In the case of a bicycle. It's made better believe it or not, which I guess is a commentary on modern vehicles. But it's a guide that helps keep the chain on track and in place. How important is it. Well, if the guide were to fail, just like on the bicycle, that chain is going to fall off, the engine's going to stop, and we've got a whole bunch of possible problems that could occur. The issue becomes at this mileage, do you do just to chain guides and sprockets or do you start thinking about a replacement engine if you're that in love with the vehicle. And I'm not no judgment, I'm just saying, you know, consider the options. If replacing chains and guides is two grand and replacing the engine is five, but the vehicles in good condition, consider that a replacement vehicle of that size and caliber is easily somewhere between sixty and eighty grand used and higher new. You know, engine replacement doesn't look so bad, right, correct. It's not something you can drive long term. That's the issue, and that's why you know you've got to make a decision. But before I go that route, I sure would find a mechanic and find the guy that's going to actually do the engine work or the engine replacement. Have somebody take the belt off and just listen to it and then be sure it's a simple process. And this way we're not playing what it could have should it in guessing? In any event, give me a call if you need more. I'm running any in the car. Doctor. I'll be back right after this. Let's get on over and talk. Let's go talk to Ron in Virginia. Ron, this is run eleven down Country. How can I help you, sir?
In my closing minutes, Yeah, twenty eleven town and Country. The ABS, the brake light and the traction control light are lit and I can't get them to reset.
Okay, Uh what what? What fault code do you have? Do you know?
I don't know.
I had AOUTOS and clicked that, you know, put it in this head the ABS control modules bad?
Okay, Right, so you had a problem. So does CEE twenty two hundred ring a bell as a possible code? Is that what they told you?
Yeah? Possibly?
Okay? So see I don't have yeah, okay. See twenty two hundred is an indicator that there is a possible internal fault in the ABS hydraulic control unit. Higher mileage? How many miles you got on this?
It's like one hundred and thirteen thousand?
Right?
Have you done any break fluid flushing or break fluid maintenance along the way, I have not Okay, so what typically happens? Yeah, no, I get it. I listen. You know, things creep up on us. It's you know, life is, life is tough, and we all we all miss a few things here and there. This is This is an argument, and I'm not saying doing break bleeding and break flushing on a regular basis would have prevented it, but it it does kind of help the process. You may find that doing a bleed using a scan tool in the words, bleeding the hydraulic control unit with a scan tool, and it would require repair shop. They go in, there's a there's an automated bleed sequence that a proper scan tool will do. And what it does is it works the internals of the hydraulic control unit. This code usually comes about because of either a failure of the control unit, one of the abs valves inside the control unit is sticky or stuck, or it's got an electrical issue. Usually twenty two hundred though is more hydraulic. It's more on the hydraulic side. So you know, they can go through a bleed procedure, they can see if that does it. But I've got to tell you You know, if I was looking at a pattern failure database and there were eight hundred cases of it, I bet just seven hundred of them are control units and the other one hundred or the odd things connectors, electrical. You know, a bleed procedure possibly fixing it. But if the brakes are operating normally, you know you're gonna always have breaks. You just won't have anti lock. The other thing you've got to be concerned with is the part even available. Vehicles almost twelve years old, and it may no longer be It may be obsolete, no longer available from Chrysler. Deeper diagnosis, some testing has to be done round. Try a bleed procedure first. I'm roonning ay in the car doctor. It's been great till the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.
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