rev up your engines, Xavier says Scotty I got an 01 GMC 4.8 single
cab truck with an oil pressure needle pegged at 80 psi what could be the
problem, oil level is good and doesn't show any the leaks and has 120,000 miles, you
want to make sure that that isn't real, that it's really got 80 psi, if you don't
have one, pay mechanic like me to remove the oil pressure sending unit and to
screw in an actual pressure gauge, all we mechanics have actual pressure gauges
and you can buy them online cheaply now 40 or 50 bucks, and see what the actual
pressure it, now if you find the oil pressure is actually 90 psi don't drive it
anymore because that means that you have a restriction somewhere, now you might
think high oil pressure what do you mean restriction, well if you get a
restriction somewhere beyond where that gauge is, the pressure before the
restriction is going to go high and then after that restriction the pressure is
gonna be too low and it's gonna damage your engine, so you want to see if you
actually have that higher reading, I doubt if you do it's probably just a
false reading, but you got to check it with a gauge and if it does really have
too high, I stop driving it and find out where the problem is because somewhere
you got a real bad restriction that's making the lower pressure go high and
then after that restriction it's too low and you're gonna get engine damage, Mars
Scotty awesome videos, I have an 02 Ford Ranger it keeps blowing fuses, just replaced
the blower motor and I went to the panel switches, what the heck is going on
here, fuses blow because you're getting too much power running through the
system, which you either have a dead short, something like a motor that's
pulling too many amps, a bad blower motor resistor that goes too many or a wiring
problem somewhere that's straining either power or ground, electrical work
is never any fun because you never know what's doing it, there's so many things
in an electrical series that can go wrong and you have to test them all, you
gotta go through the wiring harness, you gotta go through the ground to see if
there's a ground fault problem, since you said you changed the blower motor and switches
well try the blower motor resistor, a lot of times that assembly goes
bad and especially pay attention to where the wiring plugs into the
motor resistor, they were made like crap, and a lot of times all
those little pins short out and you'll see some of the wires are melted then
you'd have to cut them all off and rewire them with a new splice kit, they
make the splice cuts cuz they break all the time, you check that
first cuz that's a known fault on those things, Fernando says Scotty would
you buy a 2009 rx350 Lexus for ten grand with a hundred thousand miles, well
I bought my wife's es 300 for 4 grand with sixty thousand miles, so I would
try to pay less but if you like the vehicle and you can't get any lower go
ahead, you still want a mechanic like me to check it out to go through all the
tests, but those are pretty solid vehicles, I've seen those things with two
hundred and fifty thousand miles still had the original engines and trannies and
ran pretty good so you know if you don't
mind the price and the mechanic says it's in good shape,
go right ahead, I would just try to pay less because you're not getting any
guarantee on it, and you know you're talking about an 11 year old car and if you
can't get them any lower and you'll like it go ahead they are good cars,
Alberto says what do you think about the Ford Bronco, you know for Broncos
really started the first SUV movement and they were the first ones to put
all-wheel-drive on something besides just a pure truck,
and they kept putting bigger engines in them and they were interesting vehicles,
I mean I had customers that had them in the past
they loved them, a lot of guys are fixing them up they become collectors items and
you know their gas hogs, there's no if or ands about that, but the old ones they
were really simple technology, easy to fix, you could drive them forever and if
you live in an area that does emissions testing every year, they don't test the old
emissions one much at all, so you don't to worry about getting your car
inspected every year and paying a bunch of money because it doesn't have to be
tested, the ones here in Texas if it's more than
twenty five years old you don't need to do emissions testing, so they can be very
inexpensive to drive and maintain Castro says 2009 Ram 1500 the 5.7 Hemi
mechanically okay should I stay away well those are good engines, have the
engine checked out you just have to realize the rest of the
vehicle, they have ball joint problems they have electronic problems, and air
conditioning problems, now it's you know it's an 11 year old Dodge Ram truck, if
it checks out okay when a mechanic looks at it and you're not paying that much
you know it might not be a bad thing for a in-between vehicle, but don't expect
to buy something like that and put a lot of trouble-free miles and not put a lot
of money in fixing it that's just all those things are, so if you never want to
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