rev up your engines, steve says Scotty what's your wish for Christmas, Steve in
Scotland, I just wish that I stay healthy and all my fans do and they to keep watching
me, I keep having so much fun helping people out with their problems, hey
there's so much false information out there, there's so many people taking
advertising money and lying about stuff, that I'm having a riot helping everybody
out, my wish is that I can keep going going on
forever doing this stuff for people because, hey everybody needs a little
helping hand and you know you work hard for your money you don't want to waste
it on garbage that doesn't work, or on bad advice that will have you throwing money
into an endless money pit car, I mean love
helping people out and the more people that listen to me the more I can help out, so
let's hope I can just keep rolling for another few decades, wit says what
do you think of the WRX manual transmission, I'm thinking about getting
a 2011 WRX with 150,000 miles, their excellent manual transmission there's no
arguing that, but it's a nine year old wrx with 150,000 miles, a lot of people rag
the heck out of them, now if that vehicle was driven by a young kid, I wouldn't
even think about buying it, if it was driven by
an adult you still want to pay a mechanic like me to check it out before
you buy it, to make sure it doesn't have any serious problem, the main problems
with the Subarus are their automatic transmission and your bypassing them
all if you get that, but you still want especially have that engine checked to see
if the head gasket is leaking I got a video how to tell if your head gaskets
blown, and all mechanics have that little test kit that takes them five minutes to
tell you whether the head gasket has a problem with it blowing or not and it's
worthwhile to pay him to do that test if you're gonna buy one of those use, country
mouse living says a 2000 Chevy silverado 4.8 vortec,
are they good trucks, my friend has one with three hundred and seventy two
thousand miles, okay now if you take care of the older Chevy
trucks, they can last quite some time I've got a lot of customers with those 4.8
silverados and they're driving around and they beat the heck out
of them they carry a bunch of stuff in them
now some of them had to go through automatic transmissions, they did have to
replace the automatic transmissions, but they said, well that's fair one of them
at 156 thousand miles, he just had to put another transmission in and
I told him I said, if you're gonna keep it put a factory remanufactured and he did
and it still runs fine it doesn't have any
problems with it, so you know if you get mileage out of something and you got to
put a transmission and you put a good factory remanufactured unit in what the heck,
it's worth while, the newer ones not so much
but if you can find one that's in decent shape your thing about buying a used one they
can be good and they don't go for all that much money one to that old with
with that many miles on them, bacon boy says are dual catch cans a waste of money for
a GDI engine, you don't need to catch cans, the reason you need a catch can
on the older GDI, especially the Volkswagens is because the engineers
weren't thinking when they designed them, and normal gasoline engines that have
the fuel injectors over the intake, they suck raw fuel over the intake
valves, it's very good cleaner, so when your PCV valve system sucks a little bit
oil and vapors from the engine crankcase in, that oil that goes over the valves is
cleaned immediately and the GDI engine there's nothing but air going over it so
then when that air with oil gets in it, it clogs up the valves and the heads
inside, so it's a good idea to put a oil catch can on an older GDI engine but the
newer GDI engines the good ones, they have a dual set up, they have a fuel
injection set on the intake to clean the valves, and then another one a GDI to run
it to get more power and best gas mileage and you don't need one of those, but for the
older design it is a pretty good idea to pull one on, damaged 42 says
Scotty is it possible for a bad radiator to leak a little air inside the system
without leaking coolant and causing air bubble, theoretically it's possible but
realize that you're running your car, you got a leak in the radiator it's a
pressurized system, and at some point in time when you're driving it that
pressure is going to get up to 14-15 psi and it's gonna squirt fluid out of the
radiator, it's only logic that it's going to do that, now I have personally seen
cars that on the intake side of the water pump that hose assembly developed
a leak and the water pump was actually at certain speeds of really high
spinning sucked air in through the leak and got air in the system that
theoretically can happen I've actually seen that happen, as for the radiator
itself no, like I say cuz then when you shut it off
if it's got a leak, the pressure is gonna build up and the pressure builds up in
your radiator the most when it sits when you shut it off and it's hot soaking and
it would always squirt out then it has to, because it's a pressurized system, but
I did see a leak on an intake hose to a
water pump that did that and suck air and made bubbles, you might want to check
that, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos,
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