rev up your engine's, sian Hussein says scotty I got a question,
is there a big difference if I put in
Nissan recommended engine oil and filter or if I use oil and filters that I buy at
the store, you just want to use quality oil and quality oil filter, Nissan does
not make oil and they don't make oil filters either, other people make them and
put Nissan's name on it, that's you know just the way that it goes, if you want to
get good oil and you live in the United States all the oils are rated, and I have a
whole video on that, that just shows about the new Amazon motor oil now that
Amazon sells motor oil, I explain how it's rated watch that video, and you can
see the different ratings and then when you buy oil as long as
their rated good, it's a good oil you can use it
and there's lots of good oils out there, and the filters the same thing, I like
the high end filters but if you go to a discount auto parts store, the high end
filters there might be $12, so I buy them on
Amazon online, and I pay $4.50 a piece you can go to the auto parts store and
get those cheap three dollar oil filters but they're kind of cheap filters, I like
to higher quality ones but I get them cheaper by buying them on Amazon, if you
buy ahead hey, indeed say scotty I want to know the torque setting
spectrum I Mazda 3 2009 1.6 liter engine thanks, if you need torque specs nobody
gives them away for free, you gotta get data I
use alldata.com, now I pay like 2,500 bucks year it's a
mechanic subscription, but they have do-it-yourself ones with the same
information but you only get one car, I get all the cars in the world, but you
only get your one car, but hey it's only a 20 something dollars year, join that
because the specs are all in there and when you're doling engine work, it's very
important to have the correct torque, because you use a good torque wrench
that's been calibrated, don't just have one that's just sit around for 10 years not
using it because the calibration goes off, get one that's calibrated correctly and
you set it by the directions on how to set torque settings, and you really need
a book for that because like I say, it's so important on engines if you're
doing head gaskets, a lot of them it's a three-stage process where you do a
certain torque, then another torque, and then finish it off with a third higher
torque, so you want to get all the information that's correct and then do
it correctly, so something that's that important on an engine, subscribe to
something like alldata diy.com or get a book on it, so you do it right, edward
says Scotty and I got a Nissan Murano it's been perfect, but now it's burned up
two alternators in a couple of months, what could it be, one you gotta buy a
good alternator when you buy an alternator, a lot of them are junked and
a lot of them these days are remanufactured in Mexico and Taiwan and
who knows what kind of quality they have, so first you gotta buy a high quality
alternator, I had a customer once that was buying alternators, it was an auto parts
store here in Houston it was called Charley HiLo, and he went through four
of them and matter of fact it was in a Nissan, it was a Nissan Maxima
finally I said they're selling you junk let me buy a good one from my supplier who
has Nippon Denso ones, I put it on and it fixed the problem, so he was just getting
crappy alternators, now if you're getting good alternators and they keep burning
out, either your battery is bad or you got a problem in the charging system, so
any good mechanic like myself can load test your alternator, your battery and
check for any big current draw on your charging system in about 15 minutes, so
you might pay a mechanic to check that, first you want to make sure if you're
getting a quality alternator not, see what other people's rate for the type
that you have bought to see if it's just a crappy alternator, and I see that all the
time in Nissans, mike says I'm
considering starting my own automotive repair business, as a self-employed
mechanic like yourself, how do you handle paying income tax, Social Security,
Medicare, if you're gonna run your own business, you have to have a lot of self
Drive like I do so you just learn how to do all those
things yourself, the advantage of running your own repair business is, if you are
good at fixing things the world will flock to you, I never
spent a cent advertising my business because I just started fixing cars, then
everybody started telling people, hey this guy really knows how to fix cars,
then they tell other people and the word of mouth spread, and hey I made a great
living doing it, because I know what I'm doing, now as for the tax stuff, yeah I
got a tax account, I have to have a tax account, when I started out that was
something I was worried about, so I went to a tax accountant, the guy was
really nice because his son ran a garage so he only charged me a hundred bucks
the first year, and he showed me how to set up the books, how to pay quarterly
income tax for the federal tax that I had to pay, it's not that complicated
really, find a decent tax accountant to give you some advice on that like I did,
hey you know I'm not gonna learn all that rules, and over the years they
really save me a lot because the tax laws are always changing, hey I'm a mechanic
I don't want to study the tax laws, my
accountant studies the tax laws, so when a tax laws change they tell me, oh here
here's some more stuff you can write off.
or here are other things you can do, good tax
accountant is something you need if you start a business, if you start small they
don't charge you that much either, so if you never want to
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