rev up your engines
Rodrigo Flores says Scotty why does the check engine light come on and off on
driving Mitsubishi Lancer Oh Oh four hundred and seventy thousand kilometers
must be in Canada you're diving on the road your computer checks all the
systems in the car and it texts various times but usually it's like a minute
forty five to minute or two checks all the system then it starts all over
again it does it again and it just keeps doing it it's doing it and doing it when
it finds a problem after so many consecutive tries it turns
a check engine light on but then it continues on its merry way and keeps
checking and checking and checking and then after after so many more tries it
doesn't find that same problem it turns it back off again if you want to see
what it is when a light comes on you have a stand tool and plug it in carry
one with you and you can see what it says it's obviously a minor problem
because it goes off and comes and goes often comes on but it's totally logical
because that's the way the system works it will turn itself on but then it will
turn itself off if it sees the problems gone away so it's a very small problem
in those cases if it operates that way g-free says should i turbocharged my
Honda CRV it is 186,000 miles the engine is too high to do so I wouldn't for two
reasons it's a Honda CRV they're not made for super high speed they're pretty
high up in the air you put too much power that thing is gonna flip over on
you and of course with that kind of mileage on it any true mechanic in those
machines is gonna tell you if you're gonna turbocharged engine you're better
to beat the engine up before you turbocharger because you're putting all
that extra strain on the engine if you got an old engine like that with a lot
of miles on it and you just turbocharged and do nothing else
odds are if you really give it a lot of gas and the turbos always kicking and
you're gonna end up boiling the engine but I wouldn't do it on that vehicle
anyway it's just too high up in here it's not made for a lot of horsepower
you put too much horsepower that baby's gonna flip right over if it was a civic
yeah it's lower to the ground could handle it better Arthur J says I got Oh
5 Grand Marquis sometimes I miss fires plugs an ignition coil has been changed
what could it be sometimes fools people because you think
miss firing it's not firing correctly well it may not be the spark system if the
fuel injectors aren't firing right it will also miss mark if you have an
intake leak on the intake system like an intake manifold
it's got a hole in it somewhere that'll cause a misfire if your fuel pump
doesn't pump enough pressure that can also cause a misfire by running too lean
have sensor vacuum leaks fuel pump pressure then you pray you don't need a
guy like me to start analyzing to find out that oh well the driver in your
computer for the number four injectors bad then you got to buy a new main
computer it can go that far sometimes the fish 6 9 6 9 says I need new struts on
the 95 Lexuses or aftermarket brand your recommender factory on me not the KYT
ones are perfectly fine I got from these KY B's I know and it's a 95 so it's an
older one and that's still relatively simple now the newer ones that have the
electronic hydraulic ones that cost a fortune you're pretty much stuck with
the factory stuff but that's just a plain old strut so the KY B's are made
in Japan and they're excellent ones I've used
them on Lexuses Toyotas you name it they're actually shocks the KYB ones
work perfectly fine for those Scotty I have a question I got a 96 Toyota
four-runner v6 the gas needle goes up and down he want to drive it on a flat
surface on a highway what could it be all right one of two things either you
got a loose connection that's corroded where it plugs into the gas tank there's
wiring that's sometimes it gets corroded a little tiny bump or wind buoy
connected not connected connected not connected now if it's not that it's
descending you're in a gas tank the way fuel works us
you got a float on the other side it's a variable resistor and as it goes up and
down it tells how much fuel goes to the gauge and makes it move and those
eventually do break I mean it thinks what 24 years old so that could easily
be it but check to make sure the wiring isn't crowded or the connectors are
loose because that'll do it to yellowjacket so Scotty
Evans wireless coolant is better or worse than hoe type for cars are just a
waste of money well it does work your car was designed for a certain type of
coolant 50% coolant 50% water you start messing around with something else who
knows what the long-term ramifications are water mixes coolants been around 400
something years as long as you keep the coolant fresh so the anti-corrosion
headers don't break down it's fine who knows what that stuff does Evans
or time what it does after years all things leaked eventually and then when
they leak if they leak out you gotta buy the super expensive stuff and put it back in
me I just used normal coolant and I mean the hoat is the best coolant the hybrid
organic acid technology want so I just stick to that myself
why rearrange something like that that works perfectly fine you only need to
change them every seven years or 150,000 miles so it's not very often you got to
change it anyway yari T so Scotty what do you think is
the ugliest car you know of and the most heinous to service well the most heinous
disservice are those Porsches with the mid-engine design cuz there's no working
room to get on them an absolute pain you know there's no if ands or buts
they're not made to work on normally the Porsche mechanics that's all they work
on they love it cuz they just drop the engine off the frame and yeah then it
can work out on the ground really easy but you got to drop the engine takes a
lot of time but they don't care they get paid for it so they're happy yeah now
the ugliest car that I can think of those I don't even know the name of them
anymore but those goofy three-wheeled cars they sold in England the one wheel
in front and two wheels in the back any three-wheeled car that people make now
they know that aerodynamically you want the two wheels in the front and the one
wheel in the back not the one we on the front and two wheels in the back so it
tips over all the time mr. bean or somebody's driving one and he knocks
them off the road and they tumble over those are really the ugliest things I've ever seen
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