rev up your engines, you go says Scotty my engine oil is a little higher than the
full mark does it matter or do I need to take a little bit out well I take a little
bit out until it was on the line but I mean if it's less than half a quarter doesn't
that hurt a thing and make sure you do this to check the oil first thing in the
morning on a flat level surface cuz I had a customer once tell me
Scotty there's no oil in my engine and I checked it it was empty and he brought it to
me and I checked it was totally full and I said I don't know what you've done
but it's full there's nothing wrong with it
turns out he was checking it was parked on a hill and so it read zero but it was
totally full so always do it first thing in the morning when he engine is cold on
a flat surface cuz engine oil is heats up expands a little bit and it will go
up and down son Garrett says hey Scotty when I Drive over 5,000 rpm I get a
weird sulfur smell happens on a lot of cars I've driven there's only two
reasons you can get sulfur smell numero uno is if you've got cheap gas that has
too much salt or in it the sulfur will get in the catalytic
converter and it will smell like rotten eggs coming out of the tailpipe so if
you smell it go to the tailpipe take some whiffs if you smell come out of
there it's a sulfated catalytic converter and try cleaning it out with
some cleaner and buy gas somewhere else the only other thing that can do it is
if your battery's going out batteries have sulfuric acid can smell like rotten
eggs and if you have an alternator that's either overcharging a battery and
making it bubble or just a shot battery that's sulfated inside you'll get that
solver smell so it's either your catalytic converter or your battery
those are the only things like I really can smell like sulfur
unless you've driven your car through Hades and it has some hades dust on it
Joe it says hey Scotty why am I getting eight miles a gallon less on my 05
Toyota Camry after I put a used transmission well either the guy didn't
put the transmission in right or you got a bad transmission because the
transmission shifts gears if it shifts gears too late and stays in the lower
gears longer you're gonna get bad gas miles that's just the way that it goes
now one thing you could certainly check is once you get on highway and your in
overdrive when you're in the final gear drive it somewhere for a couple hundred
miles going on a trip see what kind of gas mileage you get
when it's on a highway going 65 and make sure that it's in overdrive that it
shifted that many times it's in the final gear it should get normal gas
mileage then if it does it just means that it's shifting to the final gear not
correctly and it stays in the lower gears too long and you're gas mileage will be
horrible I've seen that that's the thing about buying a used transmission it's
pot luck shaking the dice and hope and good numbers come up buying a used
transmission you don't get any guarantee you don't know so I tell people I'm a
transmissions putting news ones in it's riverboat gambling on that stuff, Reaper
says my 91 suzuki motorcycle eats oil can't be the valve stems well
of course it can but what you could tell if a vehicle is burning oil generally
either the valve stems go bad and it sucks them in or the piston rings wear
so what you do is you do a wet and dry compression check on the engine take out
the spark plugs do a compression test then you put like a half a teaspoon of
oil on each cylinder and then take the compression readings and if the
compression ratings go up a lot that means the piston rings are gone because
that seals on that oil if they don't go up a lot that means the valve seals are
bad because adding oil does nothing to the valve seals if they're leaking it
won't affect the pressure just sucks oil in when the intake opens, embassy picture
says is a used Buick Regal a good buy as a first car well if it's low enough
mileage and it runs good it can be fine I had a customer he paid a grand for a
used one of those years ago for his daughter and she drove it but she hated
the car she said it was a grandpa car so he ended up giving hers his car and
then he drove it as his work car and he drove it for years they only paid a
thousand bucks for it they can be decent cars but like anything else don't pay
much for a used one and have a mechanic check it out before you buy it
use cars like the old saying goes, would you buy a used car from this man, you can't
trust anybody so you have to have a mechanic check it
out to see if there was any fishy things going on but we hook our machines up
most of the fishy things if they're there they'll pop up with our scan tool
our scan tools do thousands of things it's very hard to fool somebody with one
of those knows how to operate it, the British are planning on going a lot
now aiming to make all the new cars sold there to be electric cars by the Year
2035 now that's a long time from now hey a lot of things can happen it'll be a
lot of water under the bridge between now and 2035 but I recently got back
from England and all I have to say is damn enough problems they're already
with their electrical grid and the whole bunch cars more on to it hey good luck
talk to some guys in Canada where the gala counts a hydroelectric power about
electric efficient and they even admitted they said iron infrastructure
couldn't take all these electric cars being charged up deliver it to people we
don't have the ability to generate that amount of electricity and you know you
can talk big but actually switching all that infrastructure stuff around
I could see China doing it first because it's a communist country it's a
dictatorship they could say you can only buy these cars and they have no choice
but the English are pretty free minded people huh
I don't know if I could see the English people accepting something like that
that they can only do this they put brexit in and they want to get out of
European Union and then of course all the rich people tried to stop and say
that wasn't right but you know the people were able to
vote on that one at least and get out of that ridiculous situation they had going
on in Europe now as their government's trying to tell them that they can only
buy electric cars I mean I like to see them implement it yeah well perhaps
we'll find out if I'm still around 15 years from now
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