rev up your engines, 4runner blues, I took my newly-acquired 1990 dodge b250
van to my mechanic who won't work on it, not cuz it's a big van but they said it's too
old, is this unusual, well actually it's not unusual and here's why, most honest
mechanics run a business, they're making a business to make money for a living
they see a 30 year old Dodge van, and they think that thing's not worth much
somebody bought this thing they didn't pay much for it, they don't want to spend
much money fixing it, and it may need five times the amount of work put into
it that the vehicle is worth, so yes there's a lot of old guys and myself
included sometimes, that won't work on those vehicles, now I never go that far I
try to tell people not to buy them if they don't know anything about cars but
if they still want to buy it I say, well bring it over here first, and I will
check it out for them, I spend an hour going through it and they pay me my hours
labor for checking it all out and telling you what kind of shape it's in
and now you never know, but a lot of guys don't want to mess with old vehicles
because there's so many things wrong and they know, the customer doesn't want to
pay for it, I personally have had mechanic friends and I look in the back
of their big shops and they'll have like eight cars there, I'll say what are those
old Junkers they said exactly that, the guys wanting us to fix it, we started
fixed them then they ran out of money and they wouldn't pay us, so we ended up
keeping those old piles of junk well we don't want them lying around either,
so that's the main reason, Tim says
hello from Chattanooga, I'm 15 I'm gonna be 16, I want to get a BMW 3-series as a
first car e36 body style with a standard transmission any thoughts,
well let me tell you, okay I'm 65 been working on cars for 51 years, so I got a
little experience, those things are endless money pits, now if you want to buy
one really old and get it cheap, and you think you can afford the parts for it go
right ahead, just realize the parts cost a lot of money for those BMWs and they
break down all the time, you say standard transmission at least that's a smart
move, buy one that at least runs and if it runs and shifts and goes ok,
that means the engine and transmission are decent then yeah go ahead,
but if either the engine or the transmission has problems it would eat your
lunch, don't even think about doing it if that's the case, hyper Nova's Scotty I
really enjoy your channel, what are your thoughts on importing twenty
five-year-old Japanese cars I like the toyota chaser, if you import a
vehicle that was sold in Japan it can often be very hard to get parts for here
in the United States and they're not exactly the same, because I personally
have dealt with it with my own customers say they'll bring in a toyota that they
got from japan and it was a good car with low mileage cuz i guess they don't
drive that much in Japan, they take a lot of trains and stuff and aren't that many
highways, so he got a car and it only had 35,000 miles on.
but when things broke I couldn't get parts for them because
like the oil pan was different than the American ones, the fuel injection system
was slightly different, programming was slightly different, so it's something
that it can be iffy, in the olden days we didn't really care and you could do it
because they were carbureted and they were simple and you could always just
take the Japanese carburetor off throw it away and put a Weber Italian racing
conversion carburetor on it and they'd run great, but today everything's
fuel-injected and complicated and even a 25 year old Japanese car is gonna be
fuel-injected because they used fuel injections in Japan in that day so yeah
you want to do a lot of thinking before you buy something like that because if
you can't get parts for it what's the point owning a car, they all
break eventually, Brad I changed my air intake hose because they were vacuum
leaks after that my engine RPMs are at 2000, I did throttle relearn clean the
throttle and I changed the MAF sensor with the same throttle body cleaner
I think it's that, well it could be, you want to really check for vacuum leaks
first, because if now it's idling at 2,000 rpms most of the time that means
it's sucking air somewhere, look all over, watch my video finding
engine vacuum which was a cigar, try that it's very easy thing to do, but if you
can't find any stuff, odds are you destroyed the MAF sensor and you're
gonna have to put another one in, and my advice on that is go to a place like
autozone they have a very liberal return policy, if you bought one put it on it
didn't fix it, general you can take it right back to them and get your money back
so that's what I tell people to do that doesn't
cost you anything to do if it wasn't a good guess, Josie says
Scotty I got a Mazda 3 2013 60,000 miles it has some steering rack leak but
no problems, do you think I should sell it or keep it thanks, well you know if
it's not automatic transmission definitely sell it cuz those are piles of
junk and they fall apart, but you only got 60,000 miles, but if the steering
rack is leaking hey try some 8205 reseal put three ounces of it in and see if
that keeps it from leaking so if you never want to
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