now if you don't have much money and you looking for the perfect beater car you
can't beat this thing it's a 95 Toyota Camry and it may be
beaten up but it still goes yes it does have some mileage on it 240,000 miles to
be exact in the key no longer unlocks the door so it was rigged and here's how
it was rigged the key still works in the trunk for some reason and what do we
have here well there's a string and when you pull on the string again unlocks the
back door no I'm not making this up now the only problem is the back your hand
is broken too so you gotta kind of fish inside get it out man voila well there's
the string to lock and unlock the door I'm not making this up how does it go
necessity is the mother of invention now if you wants to leave the car unlocked
it works perfectly fine but to lock it he locks them all and then you have come
through the trunk and pull the string it's just like a Rube Goldberg car but
it still goes down the road during the black paint is all fading has been
touched up with flat black paint you know like I say this door handles broken
off the hubcaps leave a little bit to be desired they've kind of faded and if you
look closely the paint does enhance anymore either on a bumper and of course
the automatic antennas broken to the pace a little faded out there this is
you can see this car was originally silver and so many painted in black yet
another reason you don't change color of cars but hey this is a beater car
it hasn't is painted black it's like the perfect feeder car when we look inside
hey the cloth seats huh well we're a pair but the other ones are still really
good shape backseat to bambina camry let's start it up starts right up
hey see still blows freezing cold all that kind of smells like a tree here
and being a Toyota power windows still work although it doesn't have any sound somebody stole
the radio a long time ago on this thing one of these poorly put on steering
wheel coverage because the old ones as you can see underneath fade away but hey
it's still steers perfectly fine but it makes a great beater car what's it doing
here well you said it's got a problem with it overheating so let me show you
how you can fix any overheating car especially a beater car that you don't
want to put too much money into already counter cars overheating you do some
basic stuff open the hood I know these loops aren't gonna work so let's get a
stick there we go that's nice and strong so first thing let's check the coolant
and okay cool it's happening you can't even see it
so it's losing coolant since we just tested we'll just fill out with water
first no sense wasting antifreeze wow this thing's low they'll just evaporate
cuz if a bad radiators camping you see somebody's tried that that's brand new
so there's nothing wrong with its cap so the next thing we're gonna check see if
the radiator fans are working so go inside car got the window open so we'll
start it up then turn a/c on full blast now on this Toyota with the a/c on full
blast the cooling fan should soon come on we'll see if they work and as we can
say that ball turning air going through so the cooling fans are not the problem
they're blowing there as I always say start with the simple obvious things
first you could chuck all kinds of things and later find all the hands
aren't working the fans are real easy to check
so it's losing coolant the fans are working so what else could be wrong well
it could have a leak so tip off and I was going to pressure catch the cooling
system but in this case when I took that cap off it went hiss this thing said all
weekend engines ice-cold if it's got pressure building up in it already
before the engines even warmed up this thing could have the blowing head gasket
so then we're gonna go to the head gasket test immediately because that
could be exactly what's happening it does have 240,000 miles on it even
though it's a Toyota everything eventually breaks
and no one knows what number owner this kid just bought it so he could be
the tenth owner I don't know we're gonna test to see if they had gas leak because
if that's leaking then all bets are off he's not gonna have the money to pay for
a job like that you just want to put that kind of money in a car and we'd
stop right there I've got a whole video on this on YouTube but basically you get
one of these combustion leak test kits a Amazon sells it for about 30 bucks
then you get the block leak and you pour it in up to the line yeah it's blue up
to the line the top on it get it tight and stick it on top of the radiator then
start the car and you do the test you watch the color for the vacuum pump you
suck it you only see if it changes and as you can see it start to change color
it's no longer blue it's starting to turn clear and then yellow if it it
turns yellow immediately you know it was really bad so this head gasket is just
starting to blow it's no longer dark blue it's starting to turn yellow so
this test is both bad and somewhat good what does test for is carbon dioxide if
you have carbon dioxide in the radiator that means somewhere the inside of the
engine either the head gas go to the head there's a leak and combustion gas
is getting into the radiator it has a turn bright yellow immediately so it's
just starting since this is a beater car and admittedly maybe not the great
beater car I thought it might have been we're gonna put some head gasket sealer
in see how long it last so we're gonna try the bars leak sealer as it says on the bottle
they're totally honest I guess good seal it is scientifically formulated to
permanently seal coolant leaks that are the cause of most are reading problems
for most vehicles this is the last chance before going to a junkyard or
paying an expensive repair bill works efficiently on cast-iron aluminum blocks
or heads stuff does work and conveniently for us this is only to be
used with pure water you can't use it with antifreeze well this thing only has
water in and out anyway so we'll fill it up and we'll run it and see what happens
we'll start it up to get it flowing
and we'll keep pouring it
now this stuff is pretty thick so here's a trick you can dilute it with some
water you got water in there anyway and then shake it up go in easier
just remember to shake it up so it mixes with water do a little cycling
no not bicycling but cycling what we want to do is we have the AC on full
blast so the cooling fans are working we'll let it sit here in idle for half
an hour and we'll shut it off for half an hour then we'll start it up an eye on
it for half an hour and we'll do that maybe six times then let it cool
overnight fill it up with water and then see what happens since we kind of caught
this in the body just starting to leap sometimes these
sealers to last for years considering that he paid practically nothing for
this car you're not gonna rebuild the engine for thousands of dollars but it'd
be foolhardy sometimes a sealer will last silica-based
kind of fuses in I've been pretty good luck with it just like the can says it's
the junkyard this or spending thousands it's up to you and we're just gonna
gamble on this one and see what happens getting too cold we'll turn that down
a little back it up take it for a ride so far so good the temperature gauge is
pretty normal here now if you look closely you can see a little bit of
smoke burning out of the back tiny bit of smoke and I can smell a little
burning coolant but smoking a lot less than it did when I first started it up
and knowing the strikes of these four-cylinder camry engines especially
back in 1995 I got a good feeling that this will work for quite some time and
here's some bonus questions and answers Jesse's not here 62 sides
I got a Mini Cooper S it's overheating and nobody can figure out what's wrong
with it I've been to three mechanics then I can't figure out why it's alright
and I said the fans work the coolants fine help you know I fixed one recently
like that I got out my infrared heat gun it's a little sensor and it's got a laser
pointer and it measures temperature and I went to the radio I found out that
certain parts of the radiator were cool others were hot now when they're cool
and others are hot that means the cool part has a
restriction so there's something wrong well in a case of this many yes I took
the radiator out and thought this thing isn't very old it was only like a year
old I started flushing it out and all this crud came out sand and as far as I
could figure was it was casting sand when they cast the engines they had
stand and whoever worked on a vehicle didn't get the sand out of the engine
cooling ducts so then they ended up migrating that sand into the radiator
where it settled in the bottom and then it overheated so you might want to
check that I mean he basically chose the poor quality of mini construction which
doesn't surprise me at all because I see it all the time in their parts but that
was an odd baggage don't show you how these temperature sensors can really come
in handy because you look at it radiator you see it not leaking and there it is
you might think it's fine but by checking it with one of these
temperature guns if you find there's certain areas that are cold and the rest
is hot well relatively like if it's 200 over here and it's only like 110 over
here you know the colder parts got some kind
of restriction there's something wrong inside there really indie devices
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