Rev up your engines, salgado says can you put conventional oil
on a car after you put in synthetic, can it damage the engine,
now I've even talked to engineers about this and they give me some stuff that I really
don't believe to tell you the truth, my experience with cars is, you're best to stick to one
type of oil and leave it that way, now I've had customers that have an older
car, they use conventional oil the whole time, then they think, oh I'm going to use synthetic
oil, then they find that it's either leaking more oil, or burning more oil,
now the engineers, some of them have told me that's impossible but I know they're full
of bull because I've seen it actually happen, synthetic oil is lighter and it cleans better
and a lot of times if you got an old engine it's going to start leaking and it's going
to start burning because it can clean some of the carbon off of the rings that are sealing
it and then start burning more oil, now you're talking about going from synthetic
to conventional, now I've never seen anybody have a problem with that as long as you use
the same grade oil, if you have like a 10w30 and you're going
from synthetic to conventional you'd have no problems other than you'd need to change
it more often, but I would not believe in going from conventional
to synthetic on an older engine, now lets say you got a brand new car and you've
only driven a few thousand miles, it's not going to make any difference but once an engine
is running on a certain type of oil my advice is to stick to it,
steven says scotty which car brand is worse, Kia or Chevy well if you want to take an average
these days and you're talking about modern Kias, I'd say Chevys are worse than the Kias,
because the modern Kias are better made than the old ones, there's no arguing that, and
Chevy, their quality just seems to be going downhill every year,
so in that pick if it was a modern car that was made in the last 3 years or so I would
go Kia before I'd go Chevy, I mean I'd go Toyota or Honda anyways but out of that choice
yeah I'd say I'd get a Kia rather than a Chevy, Paul says I got a 2002 Volvo S60 with 177,000
miles I think the transmission is going should I replace it or sell it, sell it get rid of
the thing as fast as you can, just get rid of it,
I had a customer with one of those and I wouldn't have given him $500 for the car but I said
take it to CarMax they say they buy anything and they gave him like $5,500 bucks for the
car, I said great you got your money get rid of it, drive it there and if it still runs
halfway decent see what they'll give you and get rid of it,
you do not want to rebuild, to rebuild a Volvo transmission will cost you anywhere for 4-7
thousand dollars to do it correctly, so get rid of it, don't fix it, they become
endless money pits at that age anyways, that might be a good sign for you to get rid of
it now rather than wait for something big to go then you can't get anything for it,
Halls says scotty what are your thoughts on getting a 2010 Toyota Tundra 4.6 V8 with 102,000
miles, it's sold at a Toyota dealer any tips you can give,
ok well one if it's sold at a Toyota dealer they're going to be asking too much money
for it, they always do, I got my son a toyota celica years ago, I
found one at a toyota dealer that had twice the mileage of the one I found on the street,
the one on the street I ended up buying for $1,200 at the dealer they wanted $8,000 that
had twice the mileage, so you're always going to pay to much on them,
now they're good engines if their taken care of,
those things can run a really long time but try to find one outside of the dealership
because the dealers always charge way too much money for their used cars,
their harder to find, Toyota pick up trucks used because people get them and they generally
want to keep them forever because their great trucks, but try finding one somewhere other
than the dealership because they charge way too much money for their vehicles that are
used, Kavangal says scotty I have a 2004 Mitsubishi
Outlander my power steering pulley wobbles, what should I do, change the pump or just
the pulley, well you got to change the whole pump, when the pulley wobbles, it's wobbling
because the shaft is gone, and listen to me here,
do not but a rebuilt pump, their often horrible, the guys that rebuild them generally do a
crappy job, a lot of times with that your better off going to a junkyard and buying
a used pump, if you spin it and it doesn't wobble than you are buying a rebuild pump,
now there's many Chinese companies that make brand new aftermarket ones and they work perfectly
fine, you can find them on the internet, I use that a lot of times, because I never use
rebuilt ones, but you either want to go new, or go to a junkyard and buy a used one,
Ward says hey scotty I have a 1996 Silverado what do you think about the spider injection
in them, when they were new and that's a 96 so it's
what 23 years old, they were a good system they work quite well for those big engines,
that said the spider injection because the look kind of like spiders, thats all plastic,
the lines are plastic, the injectors have a lot of plastic, even the fuel pressure regulator
is plastic, their inside the intake manifold, as they
age, the heat destroys them, so then you got to replace them and lets say you got a V8
with spider injection, when they get that old and they start to go bad, you got to replace
everything, you're going to spend a couple grand in parts
and labor if you pay a mechanic to do it, because I've had them where they'll say misfire
in cylinder 3 and 5 so you replace the injectors on 3 and 5 and after doing all that work and
putting it together and shortly there after you get other misfires, you got to replace
the whole system when they go bad, just realize that if you're going to work on them,
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