19 CAR TALK BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI click and Clack guide incredibly tenacious reader ago, and unfortunately, the problem hasnt worked itself out yet. I did some research, cleaned the speed sensors on both sides and checked to see if the reluctor wheels were the same as the ones on the old rotors Id removed. They are. Not sure where to go from here. How can I figure out what I screwed up? Thank you. Peter RAY: Just out of curiosity, we did a sur- vey of 527 normal people, and asked them at what point they would have given up on this job. Even the outliers walked away after five hours, Peter. And you should have, too! TOM: Clearly, youre a person who needs to be watched carefully. But you probably knew that already. RAY: There are two things you may have screwed up on your brakes. One is that you may have damaged the reluctor, or chop- per wheel. TOM: The reluctor is a disc that spins along with the wheel. It has a series of notches on it, and the ABS wheel sensor uses those notches to determine how fast the wheel is turning. If you cracked the reluctor while replacing the rotors, for in- stance, it could be causing the wheel sensor to read the wheel speed incorrectly. RAY: But a more likely possibility is that you damaged an ABS sensor (theres one on each wheel). You say you cleaned the sensors, but weve cleaned my brother, and it hasnt made him function any better. Sometimes things just need to be replaced. TOM: What you need to do is try replac- place, and your friends couldnt be happier. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Worrying never solved any problem, which is something that really concerns me. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It takes a village to raise a child. In your case, it takes a village to maintain a village idiot. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You have so much to give to the world, which is good because the world is ready to take every- thing youve got. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Like youre really going to believe what I tell you. Okay, stand with your barefeet in a bucket of ice water all day. How did that feel? ing the ABS sensor on the drivers side. Its an easy job, Peter. Twenty-five hours, max. Dear Tom and Ray: In my infinite wisdom, I woke up early one Saturday morning and decided I would do something productive with my weekend. Even though Ive never attempted any sort of car repair in my life, I decided to change the front brake rotors on my 2006 Ford Ranger. I bought all the tools necessary for the job, cranked up the radio and got the front passenger brake rotor replaced in just under 16 hours. NNNNNice! I took the car for a test drive, and the brakes did just fine, no issues. Then I moved on to the drivers- side brake rotor, which took just about four hours, given all the experience Id gained on the other side. But then I had a problem: I went for a test drive, and my ABS system started to activate when I slowed down to under 2 mph or so. I can feel the pumping in the pedal and hear a bit of a humming noise. Well, that was about five months Dear Tom and Ray: My wife has a 1994 Toyota Camry with a very loud exhaust. I figured there has to be a hole somewhere causing this. So, when I got home today, I started her car and could tell that the noise was coming from the front. As soon as I looked underneath, I could see a hole. It is well before the mani- fold, in plain view, and is located on the pipe. But its not a rust hole or a crack; it looks like a hole that was intentionally put there. Then I immediately noticed, hanging right next to it, a small tube that looks like an exact fit for the hole. It is obvious that this tube is supposed to be connected to this pipe. What is it, and is it an easy fix? Jeff RAY: Boy, youre really taxing the old brain cells by asking us to remember what the exhaust pipe on a 94 Camry looks like. Sure you dont want to quiz us on the Second Italo-Abyssinian War instead? TOM: I think that hole was some kind of test port. RAY: I think my brothers right. A lot of cars from that era had a tube in the engine compartment that plugged right into the exhaust pipe, before the catalytic converter. It allowed the mechanic to stick a probe into the tube and analyze the pre-converter exhaust. TOM: Then he could compare that read- ing with the exhaust coming out the tailpipe on the other side of the converter and see how well the converter was working. RAY: But that tube has now rusted off, and all youre left with is the hole. And since you really dont need the tube any- more, just have someone weld or braze the hole shut for you. TOM: Or you can go with my brothers favorite exhaust repair product: frozen concentrated orange juice cans. RAY: Nah, they havent been the same since they switched over to cardboard. Too many fires! In any case, I wouldnt spend a lot of money on repairing it, because chances are good youre going to have to replace the whole exhaust system before long. If that connector has rusted off, chances are theres a lot more rust where that came from, Jeff. Good luck. Tom and Ray offer a strategy for every- one whos shopping for a car. Find yours in their pamphlet Should I Buy, Lease, or Steal My Next Car? Send $4.75 (check or money order) to Next Car, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Get more Click and Clack in their new book, Ask Click and Clack: Answers from Car Talk. Got a question about cars? Write to Click and Clack by visiting the Car Talk Web site at www.cartalk.com. (c) 2010 by Tom and Ray Magliozzi and Doug Berman. Distributed by King Fea- tures Syndicate, Inc. 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Publishers Note A theater at a crossroads By JEFF RAPSIS The York Independent This edition of the York Independent looks at the Leavitt Theatre in Ogunquit. Its an institution that I didnt know about until this spring, though I had driven or walked past it many time since last year. Why was a movie
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