rev up your engines, DW says hey Scotty what do
you think about adding a bottle of lucas oil in every oil change, in older
worn-out engines there's nothing wrong with doing that, they burn a little oil
you could add some in, but realize that all the lucas oil additive that I see is
this really thick stuff it's super thick what it's doing is its raising the
viscosity of your oil, you don't want to do that at all on a modern engine, you
got an engine it says put in 0W 10 or 10 W 20 oil, real light oil you don't
want to use it at all because you don't want to make the oil
thicker, that can actually do damage to the engine,
you got a 75 Ford sure if it burns a little oil, add a little to that every time, I've
had customers that did that and I'd do it for customers if they say, you know it's
burning a little bit of oil you keep adding that in and when I change their oil I put
a quarter of the lucas oil additive then they said it burns less oil and it
doesn't hurt anything, but you can't do it on a modern car that has all the
variable valve timing that uses a real lightweight oil because it can actually
cause damage in the long run, ac cliff says I bought a Nissan where
the transmission has been changed at 40,000 miles now it's 100 should I worry
about it breaking again, well I would, if the first only lasted 40 and now you
got sixty thousand more than that on it, they make
horrible transmissions Nissan that's just the way that they go, and you have
to think logically and think, hey you know it broke at 40 now it's got 60
maybe it's gonna get ready to break again, they're just not all that well
made and I'm sure whatever guarantee they gave you it's long gone on it, but
the hundred thousand miles you're not getting much for a Nissan, so you might
just baby it and drive it and long as you can because I've seen people with
them with a hundred thousand miles and they want to get rid of them and only
thing people are offering are fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars which is
nothing, so you might as well as just drive it then, be illogical when you have
a car don't you know, even though I think
some cars are bad if you stuck with it and it still works, just baby and see how
long it lasts and don't buy another one, that's the best thing is the next time
you get one buy a different model, zammer says what do you think of a
97 dodge b2500 van are they reliable, I'm gonna drive it as
driver, like I say I'm not a Dodge van and stuff, but back in 97 they built them
better, if there's a 97 Dodge b2500 and it still runs and shifts good you know
hey that was a pretty solid built vehicle, on the other hand you're talking
about what a 23 year old vehicle, that's old, and you're gonna use it as a daily
driver, I don't know about buying something that old and planning on
driving it everyday and not thinking you're gonna have problem, the rubber is gonna
be rotting, the electronics are going to start to get wiring cracks and have shorts
and stuff, so you might you know think twice about something that old as a
daily driver, I got customers that actually run delivery services, they will
buy older vehicles like that, but they know they have it in that, maybe I gotta
put a transmission in or put a rebuilt engine in, they're ready to put that kind
of money in it and if you're ready to do that go ahead but don't think you're gonna
buy something that old and you're gonna be driving as daily driver and not have
problems as it ages, James says Scotty to what extent can you
work on modern engine electronics without spending a lot of money on equipment
you have to buy some equipment, and as I talked about scan tools there are all
kinds of scan tools out there, a $69 one go to Amazon and you look at the $69
ones like Foxwell and different companies that make them, for 69 bucks you could
look at a lot of stuff, you can see the pulsing of the fuel injectors, all kinds
of data about catalytic converter, data on ignition timing, you can get quite a
bit information out of a $69 scan tool these days, there's nothing wrong
with buying something like that and you can still get a lot of information about
things that you can learn and plus with the internet look at the internet, if you
got a particular problem cars are mass-produced so if one has a problem
generally all that model is gonna get the same problem, and you can find it on
the internet for free, so there's a lot of stuff you can actually do with very
limited amount of technology, you can get a really nice digital ohm meter and
checking stuff for 40-50 bucks today too, you don't have to buy the stuff that I have
that cost a thousand dollars, $50 electronic testing equipment today is
decent stuff for working on electronics like, see because those are all
low voltage 5 volt reference and stuff unless you're working on like a Toyota
Prius and they've got you know 240 volts and you gotta have a really good meter
then but when you're dealing with normal cars you
don't need that much power, so if you never want to miss another one of my new
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