rev up your engines, bill camp says, I got a 2003 Honda Accord Coupe with an
automatic transmission starting to go bad
I'd like to swap it out for a manual transmission, how hard would it be and
is it worth the trouble, well let me just start out to say, it's really not worth
the trouble, to change an automatic to a standard, you got to change the
computer system, you'd have to cut holes put in a hole for the gear shift, you
would have to hook up a clutch pedal somewhere and bolt that on and
hydraulics, it is a giant pain in the butt, I've had customers do that and they all
after they did it said, Scotty I'll never do another thing like that again, it
was just too much of a headache, all that stuff that you got to change out and of
course the transmission is different, so the drive shafts are different too, you got
to swap them out, it is a pain in the butt, if you really want one go get a
standard transmission and get rid of yours
because it is a gigantic pain in the rear end swapping all that stuff out to make
it work correctly, believe me I've had people do it and they all said
they'd never do it again, John low says Scotty do you like FJ cruisers, well you
know I thought they were a cool vehicle, Toyota stopped making, but I think the
main reason they stopped making them was because you know they're up high up in
the air they're not aerodynamic, they had a big 6-cylinder engine they were pretty
big gas hogs, and they just decided to dump not make them anymore, they're well
made I had customers with them and they're all
happy and I had some customers that said, hey
I want to buy a new one but I can't they're not making them anymore, so I
said well go look for a good used one they're not that easy to find cuz
usually the guys that buy that type of vehicle if that's the type of vehicle
they want they're gonna be happy with the Toyota, you know it's not like well
they bought a car and they didn't really like the way it was made and what it looked
like and what it did, but people to buy those things they were looking for
something like that so, theirs really not the wrong other than they decided
not to make them anymore, CP says Scotty your thoughts on an 87 Buick Grand
National, okay well those are collectors items now, people like them and for the
type of vehicle that they are, they're pretty good vehicles you know, they've
got a lot of room and they got dependable engines and their
transmissions were pretty dependable, people that want
type of vehicle that's not a bad vehicle, now realize if you're gonna get one
that's a stock vehicle you're gonna paint pretty good money for it because
they've become collective items and that's you know what it's a 32 year old vehicle
now, since our collector's item you don't want to buy something like that and use
it as an everyday driver, you want to take care of it and keep it and insure it
and realize if you insure a classic car like that you don't drive if you drive
less than like 5,000 miles a year, you can get pretty cheap insurance on those
things, my customers that drive them, when they tell me
some of them are only paying three four hundred dollars years for insurance on them
so it might not be a bad deal, Garcia says I got an O7 Mustang my
brakes keep singing to the floor, mechanic says the master cylinder is
good and there's no leaks, one I'd say find another mechanic cuz it's his job
to find a problem and if he said he can't find the problem he's not a very good
mechanic, when they sink to the floor either you got a bad master cylinder or
you have a leak somewhere in the system, could be anywhere could be in anti-lock brake
system, or you got a bad brake booster here's the thing that you can kind of
get an idea about the booster is, turn the engine off, step on the brake with
the engine turned off, if it's rock hard you start up the engine and then you
step on it at sinks you got a bad booster and then you'd have to replace
the booster on it, it's a decent test to see if the boosters is bad, because the
boosters aren't cheap they're relatively expensive and you don't want to have to put
one on if you don't have to cuz that's an awful lot of money you're gonna spend
RR says I've got a vehicle it's Pontiac Vibe and it's running on a
bi fuel LPG and gasoline, the LPG has no issue but with the gasoline it has a
rough idle when it's warmed up and gives loss of power at 3,500 rpms and up
it gains back and then it looses, you know there's nothing wrong with the engine or
the ignition system, because it works fine on LPG don't you got some kind of
problem with the gasoline running system, the
first thing I would advise doing would be to pressure test the fuel pump, the
fuel pump for the gasoline is a different system than the LPG that's a
pressurized system by itself, gasoline has to be pumped with pressure with a pump,
pray it's just a weak fuel pump it could be that simple, if it isn't it can get
really complicated, it could be the fuel injectors are dirty or the computer isn't
pulsing them right, it has to be something in that gasoline fuel system
because if it runs perfect on the LPG everything else
is running fine, so pressure test the fuel pump first that's the first thing
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