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Ron and Amy in The Car Doctor here to answer your questions at 855-560-9900. Let's go over to Travis up in Canada and see what's going on here. Travis, welcome to The Car Doctor, sir. How can I help?  Hi, Ron. Thanks for having me. How are you doing? You're welcome, sir. Good. What's going on? I got a 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse. It's got 131,000 miles on it, and it's got the 2.4 liter motor in there. Right, yep. And I've been fighting a P0171 for, oh, I don't know, about eight or nine months. Right. And it's been off the road for a while just as I'm trying to diagnose and fix the darn thing.  And yeah, I've kind of gone through the service manual and I'm kind of stuck. I don't know where else to go. I've checked for vacuum leaks, exhaust leaks, and I've fixed a few of those. And it's still throwing the code. The vacuum leaks I fixed have brought the short-term fuel trim back.  Down at idle, which at first I thought that was, oh, hey, maybe that was the problem. But my long-term fuel trims driving and at idle and under load are stuck at 12.5 all the time. Okay. So it's always got high fuel trims. Are the fuel trims high at idle or even going down the road?  Both. The long-term is just pegged out at positive 12.5. And at idle, they were low 20s consistently before I fixed the vacuum leaks. And then now they seem to be long-term stuck at 12.5, and short-term is anywhere from plus, I'd say plus 7 to plus 10 all the time. Okay. So have you tried making this richer? Do you have any propane?  I have, yeah, and immediately when I throw that in the intake, the trims come down. Okay, good. So that shows us DO2s are working, right? Yeah. It's able to respond. So sitting there at idle, warmed-up engine, have you looked at mass airflow grams per second? Yeah, I'm sitting at about 2.8. That's about right. That's about right. And then as you accelerate down the road, it increases, right?  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Okay. And have you poked around with propane? For like looking for leaks, you mean? Yeah, just looking for a vacuum leak. I've smoke tested. I bought a smoke machine off Amazon and that's been great. That helped me find my other leaks. So now when I go into the brake booster or another line, the only minor leak that I have is  It's almost like it has a mechanical throttle body with a throttle cable. Right. And it's coming out. There's a bit of smoke coming out where the spring is on the throttle body. I don't know if it's the throttle body shaft seal maybe. Okay. But I don't know if that's normal as the smoke machine builds up pressure, but that's the only spot I got smoke coming out in the intake side. Well, and smoke's a great way to go and good initiative, right? I like your thinking. Mm-hmm.  So a smoke machine generates about a half a PSI in most cases, depends on what yours is. But a smoke machine test is only half the equation, all right? I'd still like to do it with propane. So what sort of propane setup do you have? Oh, it's just a generic camping, like, yeah, like a torch. Oh, okay. Tell you what, sit tight, Trevor. Let me pull over and take the pause. When we come back, we'll finish up. I'm Ron Anany and The Car Doctor. We'll be back right after this.  Hi, we're the Goo Goo Dolls. We're fortunate that we can give our daughters everything they need to grow and learn. But not every child can focus on classes and play dates. Nearly 13 million kids in the U.S. face hunger. That's one in six. School lunch might be their only meal each day. And it's heartbreaking to imagine any child going to bed hungry.  We're dreaming of a perfect day when kids can smile, play, and just be kids without worrying about where their next meal will come from. Feeding America is working to make that perfect day a reality. Each year, the Feeding America network of food banks rescues billions of pounds of good food that would have gone to waste. 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And you've probably got like the little crank on black knob that turns on and off. Like if you're going to light it to do plumbing work or light up a camping lantern, that kind of a thing. Right. Okay. So somehow you've got to nick that on. You've got to attach a black rubber hose or some sort of rubber hose to that. And then on the other end of that rubber hose, I want you to get a small piece of steel brake line, three sixteenths.  And I want you to peen one end of that brake line down so it's just a point. So crush it flat. Typically what I'll do is I'll put it in a vice and I will peen it shut except for one little corner. I'm trying to make a pinpoint opening in the end of the brake line.  All right. Now, when I open up the propane and I'm going to open it up slow, realizing that if something backfires, I've got a hand grenade in my hand. Right. OK. The dangers of auto repair, brother. All right. And I'm going to use that pinpoint like a wand and I'm going to direct it at specific things. And I can control the flow with the knob. I don't have to turn on a full just a little bit of a flow. Right.  If you were to look at the O2 sensor by scan tool or voltmeter or whatever way you want to do it, can we agree that if you were able to get propane directly in that throttle shaft and it made a difference on how the O2 read, that it's making a difference on fuel trim?  It should, yeah. Yeah, right? Fuel trim is fuel trim. I mean, it doesn't know where the fuel or the air is coming from. So, you know, I want you to do that. That's the whole purpose of propane. Propane is not just in that big globular. If we were going to do massive amounts of propane like that, we might as well use carb clean from the 70s.  All right. The idea is propane can make a very pinpoint accurate diagnostic tool. All right. I want you to get a yellow notepad and just eliminate things. I want you to check fuel pressure if you can. I've done that. Yep. Good. You wrote down your results?  Yeah, it was one PSI at curb idle over the spec. So I figured that was good enough. Take a look at the maps. Take a look at the map sensor. Key on, engine off. You should see four to four and a half volts. Start it up. You should see a volt, volt and a half, something like that. But just be specific. Propane the throttle body. Just make sure there are no vacuum leaks elsewhere. Leave the brake booster disconnected.  All right. And then last, look around in the area of the O2 sensor. Any exhaust leaks, any exhaust leaks will skew that O2 and will contribute to a lean code. Do those things. Call me back. Until the next time, I'm Ron Ananian, The Car Doctor. Good mechanics aren't expensive. They're priceless. See ya.  I knew there had to be a better way to get relief from joint pain aside from surgery and harmful medications. 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Hear over 500 archive episodes at AmericanWarriorRadio.com.  Tucson's only live local news and talk. KVOI Cortero. 1030 The Voice. A Bustos Media Station. Online at KVOI.com. Ronananian. The final frontier. These are the voyages of... The Car Doctor. It's five year mission. To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations.  To boldly go where no one has gone before. Ronananian. Sometimes you gotta guess. You know, sometimes you have to play Mr. Spock in The Voyage Home. Kirk tells him to guess and he doesn't understand and he goes to McCoy and McCoy says, Spock, take your best guess. Sometimes that's what you gotta do in auto repair. The car doctor. How many miles are on this car? 22,000. Right, it's a 22,000 mile car. Right, extremely low mileage. So...  You know, we've got an alignment issue. You hit a curb, right, to sum it up, just to make this simple? Yep. Okay. It's out of alignment. They can't bring it into alignment because something's bent or twisted in that right front corner. Welcome to the radio home of Ronananian, the car doctor. Since 1991, this is where car owners the world over turn to.  for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanic's giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in. The garage doors are open. But I am here to take your calls at 855-560-9900. And now, here we go.  Well, that is true. Sometimes you do have to take your best guess. I mean, that is part of auto repair today. It's come down to that. And it's not for lack of trying. It's not for lack of ability. It's not for lack of equipment. It's because of what we're working on, that we've got to get as close as we can to a solution and then go, okay, it's this or it's that. This is more likely.  And that's why in a lot of cases you'll always hear me say to you, hey, you know, tell me what's good. I'll tell you what's bad. Because if you eliminate what's good, you know you're going to figure out what's bad. And sometimes you can get down to that last percentile, but not in every case. So just something to think about and be aware of. Let's kick open the phones right away. Let's go over to Marjean in Iowa. Iowa, you know, there's something going on in Iowa in the next couple of weeks out in Bettendorf. Are you near Bettendorf, Marjean?  Not at all. That's the other end of the state. Okay, yeah, there's a big car show going on that way. Rob Wolf of American Pickers is going to be out there. They're putting on some kind of big car show for all you people out in Iowa and everywhere else. But in any event... And RAGBRAI is going on, too. Yep, yep. So how can I help you today? Okay, this is a follow-up. June 22nd, I called you on an 05 Buick LeSabre that was dying on me going down the road.  And you had suggested my mechanics who couldn't find a code, and I'm talking two different mechanics, and a theft system and a tilt wheel flexing wire to see if it's frayed or broken might be the cause. Right. They laughed at me when I suggested those things. And they suggested other things, but it's all a guessing game. So they test over it every day for like two weeks.  It didn't do a thing. The next day after I got it home, it died on me going on the road again. Right. Well, I'm going to be on the interstate or the highway sometime going 60 miles an hour instead of 30. And I was afraid of what might happen, of course. And so I got stalled somewhere, and then it got to the point where it wouldn't start at all. It tried to start, but it wouldn't stay started. So it had to be towed from where I was, only...  The neighbor ended up helping me, and he caught a code. He had one of those code finders. He caught a code, P0101, which is a mass airflow sensor. So I went to one of those mechanics and ordered one and got it right away, and he put it in, and that solved my problem. Excellent. So far, at least. Excellent.  So you wanted me to do a follow-up on what I found, and that's what I found. Well, I appreciate it. And then sometimes it takes that. You know, I'm surprised your mechanics didn't know about the problems with the flex column and the tilt wheel causing the issues because we would see the older cars. They said that Buick, it couldn't be possible with that Buick of how it was made.  Hmm. I've seen it on that Buick, so they must make them different in Iowa. I don't know. Yep, but good. I'm glad it's solved for you, Marjean. Congratulations. Yeah, well, so far that's worked.  Yep. So, well, we'll see, right? I don't quite trust it yet going long distance, but so far it's worked. And look, if it doesn't, you know where to find me. All right, kiddo? So, and then we'll, you know, if we have to do a deeper dive, we can always do a deeper dive. Thank you. You're great. You have a great day. You know, listen, sometimes it's about community. Sometimes it's about knowledge. Sometimes it's about exchanging information. One of the neat things that all data...  has done in recent weeks is they have repair community built within their repair software so that in the case of Marjean from Iowa with her 05 Buick, if her mechanics were using all data, they might see mention they could go in, they could do their research or come up with a code, or they might see a list for that vehicle of common malaise, common problems, and it would  All data now has the ability where it will walk you through and show you, hey, you know, this is what this fixed it. This is how that fixed it and so on. So, you know, information in community is becoming very common now. It's become an essential part of auto repair that it.  You know, that it has to be there, right? We have to consider the options of, you know, what if and, you know, could somebody else have that problem because we're here to share information. So kudos to all data. Steve's writing in from Virginia. Hey, Ron, you were asking about DMVs. I remember this. So Steve's lived all over the place. Let's see. In Virginia, he said each county has a DMV branch. A key is to go to a rural county because the branch there might not be as busy.  Virginia sounds like is sort of like New Jersey in that you go where there's the least amount of people, in a sense, in order to get some kind of service. State of New Jersey, state of confusion, same thing. California, no inspections were required for out-of-state vehicles being registered. The state headquarters and DMV were local. This is 1980 when he lived there. It was an enormous hassle, busy. I had to retake the motorcycle operator's test and registering something. Should have told you something about life there. Steve always gives those unique twists.  from his perspective of where he's lived around the country. Michigan, DMV is plus private registration offices. That's new. I've never heard of that. And they do everything they can to be helpful. That's Michigan. Most accommodating DMVs of any place I've ever lived. Plus, you can drive as fast as you want without ever getting a ticket. Had to slow down for Ohio during the 55-mile-an-hour days, but actually got off with a warning there from state police. And Virginia, he goes back to say, I drive 10 miles.  Over the speed limits in town, cops are busy now with real crime. City of Roanoke, but not the county, is one of the most violent in the state.