rev up your engines today I'm gonna talk and show you when you decide how far you
want to go fixing a car depending on what you're planning on using the car
for what kind of shape it's in what's really left in it now this is an old one
Camrys got like 180,000 miles so professionally it looks to be in really
good shape it's shiny everything but let's look closely looks nice but if you
look closely well the door handle is broken you just
put a ring to open but it does work he's torn apart all the door stuff and
gotten a used switch so the windows and the locks work he doesn't really care
what it looks like then the interior store decent shape the cloth seats
they're comfortable everything still pretty much works radio and everything in
it but it is old and look what happens when I push on the suspension system
I just keep bouncing bounces like mad in the back and also bounces like mad in
the front just total slop now in a perfect world that means that it needs
all new struts but if you want to put front and rear struts on this thing
you're gonna spend a lot of money if you put decent stuff on and mechanics are gonna
be well over eight hundred bucks to put decent struts on all four wheels so in
cases this vehicle you got to decide how much money you want to put in it
and how are you driving it you're driving this in town in the city
I've had people drive them decades that way they're not jumping in this car and
Houston Texas and driving to LA no that would be a mistake it's not safe on the
highway speeds it's bouncing you're losing control what for a Knockaround
City car it's perfectly fine and if you're thinking like some people will
and just bolt the cheaper quick struts on well one they're not all that much
cheaper and to get all last as long so you're putting on keeping this thing for
another decade or something don't put those cheap quick struts on cuz within a
year or two they'll wear out and they never ride all that right anyway so my
advice on this thing is either live with it bouncing around are put on quality
struts don't just put cheap ones and think
they're gonna last they won't and now we'll check under the hood to see what
other things are wrong as you can see it's leaking oil like mad from the
valve cover gasket but this is a v6 engine there's three cylinders here and
then there's three under here to change the back cylinders we're talking about
taking the intake over that's a big job it's only pouring out of the front once
what just changed his front ones and see what happened and he noticed he said it
a clock when he went reverse and try again that's a relatively simple thing
this dog-bone mount here you can see the rubbers all rotten and so it clunks back
and forth when you move the car from park to drive
now that's no big deal so we're gonna change that what he also said it felt
kind of squirrely so we're gonna jack up the front end and check some more of the
suspension now we know the struts are worn out
well we're gonna check out four other weird things like ball joints tie rods
you know we can check for excessive play, nothing outrageous just a little bit
there that's normal where ya realize this thing does have a hundred and
eighty something times miles on things you're gonna be warm but that's not
anything excessive is gonna be dangerous not what you're this like I said it's
got a little bit of play but nothing outrageous the inner tie rods are a
little bit worn but i see that all the time on his Camrys the inner tie rod has
a sleeve that's got a plastic piece in it the plastic wears a little and you get a
little bit of play but the metals still there so it's not dangerous
and rather there's been a ton of money doing that this thing siphon off the way
it is so we're gonna change this dog-bone mounts no there are pretty
tight so we're gonna use a long extension bar in a socket to break it
loose there's one there's another one here don't we catch one off my hand and
get this one out of the way since there's no real tension on this one that's
sitting you slide it right up and as you can see it's broken that comes right out
of there there's the no one then it just slips in and we bolt the top one in cuz
it's easier then comes the fun of lining up the bottom one
I got a pry bar because you often have to move the motor a little so we push it
a little we can line this hole up and bolt it up then once you start it you
got a socket cuz you can't do this with your fingers it's pretty tight now it's
starting to come out the other side we're almost on you want a nice and
tight no more broken dog bone mount that's gonna help a lot of the problems
because that holds the whole engine and transmission and it'll make it much more
stable so we'll take off the stupid cover annoying plastic nonsense but
that's how they make cars these days with a bunch of crap on them
the spark plug coil ignition coils and get the radiator hose out of the way
cause it's blocking stuff don't we check all the valves all the bolts are loose
them all and pull them out get a hammer and tap it now the whole thing will come off
off it comes, and as you can see it's leaking all over this car is that the
engine oil change long enough it should have been changed more that's why
there's all this crud inside they're gonna wipe all the residual oil that's
off on the top of it man so the seals lighter as you can see here the spark
plug seals are bad too so we get a hammer and we pop the old seals out to
put new seals in because they're all shot to good just hammer back in you try
out the old gasket it's gonna be just as hard to get up because it's all baked on
from all these years but I've actually you'll find a hole you can get it open
you see how brittle it is just comes off in pieces supposed to be flexible
then in goes the new valve cover gasket it's custom made to fit in everything
perfectly first you just kind of generally feel a little it along pushing it
into the little holes to make sure it's right because there is a left and
right there different sizes dan you gotta push your man super tight so they
snap into a hole and stay in place this particular one is a silicone base
gasket which is best they last the longest and as you can see here it's all
neatly fit you push your finger the whole way around it's pushed into the
hole tightly there's no sealer or gasket maker needed just the silicone gasket
then you push it snugly on don't forget any of them there's a whole bunch of
them and then first make them all stop start in the middle and work your way
out start the middle and you work your way around to get them snug and we'll do
this one I'm gonna do one it's a crisscross man now watch out them
snug they get your ratchet and make them all tight again from the middle working out
here finally the last one over here so we put everything else on get those
pliers and slide the clamp back on then we'll put the ignition coils back on
this one goes here make sure they're on time and a radiator hose back in this
place a little oh yeah get that clamp on nice and tight and add some coolant cuz
I notice nothing came out when I took it off so it's low on coolant is low, then you
put the stupid beauty cover back on doesn't do anything but whatever
then we'll close the hood and take it for a spin and we use the funky little ring
that he has to open the door yeah and it doesn't drive all that bad
it rides like one of those vans in a Porky Pig cartoon where every time you
hit a bump the whole thing just goes up and down I mean if you don't mind
that you can drive this car for many years to come so if you don't mind
riding around in a post-apocalypse car it doesn't have a rear view mirror
anymore hey this thing might last for many years to come
as long as you're not a fanatic Tamiya on the truth about this all 2000 camry
what you should do with it all car and what you should and here's some bonus
questions and answers not everyone laughs at those segways and people were
at around it turns out the second guy who bought the company from the first
guy ended up driving over a cliff and Scotland I believe and kill themself i
one but now segway's gonna have a
motorcycle they go zero to 60 in 2.9 seconds and that's a top speed of 125
miles along cry from the Segway that you people rode around and have tours
of city that don't go on it fast now you wonder how they can make something
like that from there simple little technology
well that's because a Chinese company now owns them it's called
nine BOTS and then I call kinds of electric stuff in China
also working on other things you have a thing called the Segway s pod which is
a chair that you sit in yes a chair but it's share that can go twenty four point
eight miles an hour so if you want to find out what it's like to be in a chair
and something happens to be thrown out of a chair twenty four point eight miles
an hour it's actually quite fast it might not sound like much but one time
the police came over here and I did a little video on the importance of
seatbelts and they had the sled thing and that thing was going like four miles
an hour you slid down and then it stopped and when it stopped then four
miles an hour man they're really jolted you when you went forwards 25 miles an
hour almost it's extremely fast to be going in a chair that you might fly up
but they actually have one it's called the Segway s pod but on a positive side
they say that this chair will go 45 miles between charges so it's halfway to
what the Mini Cooper that is the Electrify diversion can go so you can get
reasonable distance you know I guess you have to stay on the sidewalk right it's
a chair it's not a car so actually so in the United States and see people in my
neighborhood riding around in chairs I mean I wouldn't put it behind modern
people, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos
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