rev up your engines, J man says will Ford ever bring the 300 6 cylinder engine back
best engine Ford ever made, well I kind of doubt that they will, because they've
gotten away from straight six-cylinder engines, they don't have the torque and
horsepower that a v6 has, Ford is really going for v6, a lot of their big trucks now
they're throwing v6 with GDI gasoline and twin turbos on them to get
horsepower, so I doubt if they'll bring back the straight six and yeah they were
very dependable engines, they didn't have the horsepower but they could run a
really really really long time, if you really think about it most companies
don't want to make things that last a really really long time cuz they want to
sell you a new one every four or five years you know, that's our society people
want to make money, Jacob says Scotty what is the best hatchback made in the
last ten years, yeah I got one sitting in a driveway you can't beat it, it's a Toyota
Matrix 2007 it was made in Cambridge Ontario and the funny thing is, they
stopped making them a few years ago but now I
notice now they're selling Toyota Corolla hatchbacks, well it's the matrix
it's the same car you can see by looking at it, they just I didn't want to call it
matrix on it's own so now they're calling it
Toyota Corolla hatchback because the matrix was
all based on the Corolla everything anyway, same engine, same brakes, same
transmission and you can't beat them they were the best ones that were made
and there's no arguing that, GDL 30 says hey Scotty should I use a
thicker oils as my car increases in mileage thank you, okay it used to be true
for all cars, when I was a kid as cars got old, burnt a little oil, we put a little
heavier oil, but those were all pushrod cast-iron engines, now with variable
valve timing and some engines that use a 0w ten oil, you never want to put a
heavier weight oil in them, because they were designed for the lighter weight oil
and some of them do burn a little oil as they age but you basically live with it,
you don't want to put a heavier weight oil in it,
because they were designed for that and they may not run right and it can even
wear them out faster, so with most modern cars you don't want to mess with the
viscosity, you want to stick with what you've been using all those years, what the
manual says, Alex says Scotty I have the opportunity to buy
really cheap v6 front wheel drive 87 Oldsmobile 98 Regency, love the interior
but don't know about the transmission and motor, how difficult is it to rebuild
a front-wheel drive transmission, okay that's an 87, that's one of the worst
automatic transmissions GM ever made when they started making those
front-wheel drive ones, they had no idea what they were doing, but if you can get
the car cheap enough, you can get a factory rebuilt transmission for those
things they weren't as complex as the new ones they only had a few gears,
they're not like the new ones that are eight, nine, ten speeds, they're a lot
simpler and a really good transmission guy would have no problems rebuilding
that one, because it's simpler, if it needs rebuilding doesn't work right, if you get
the car cheap enough why not have some fun, but don't pay much for it you know
the value of that car is virtually nothing, maybe five hundred dollars or
something so don't pay much for it, x man says Scotty I got a 97 GMC Yukon and
every once in a while I hear a grinding noise when I break my headlights lower
at the same time, do I have to replace my wheel bearing, well the headlights
shouldn't have anything to do with that the grinding could definitely be the
wheel bearing, check you know pull the wheels off make sure you're not low on brake pads
or brake shoes anywhere, could easily be a wheel bearing check that out, when you
jack it up and spin the wheels you hear any kind of rattling or have any or a
little play on it, but making your headlights lower at the same time that's
more often either your alternator is getting weak or you got a ground wire
problem, GHs are known for having ground wire problems and often ground wire
problem the headlights will get dim but just go to a place like autozone, they'll
check your battery and alternator free and a lot of times that's your alternator
just starting to wear out, Vinny Adam says my family cx-7 has a blown head
gasket I'm wondering if it's worth fixing, those Mazdas they have a lot of
problems, if it's high mileage and it's old, I'd just get rid of it, you think it
has a blown head gasket it could be a lot worse, and my experience with those
CX-7 is, they got that variable valve timing with the chain on it, that system
often breaks down, they use a motorcraft on them, Mazda and ford have of some kind
of relationship going on and
they had a lot of problems with those in them too, you never really know if the
only thing you have is a blown head gasket when you got a problem with the
engine, and you only find out when you tear the engine apart and start looking
at stuff, if it's high mileage, I wouldn't even fix, I'd just junk the car and
get rid of it, because once you take that engine apart if it's high mileage it's
probably gonna need a full rebuild with Pistons, bearings, and it's just not worth
it on those things, in that case if you could find a used engine in a junkyard
that had low mileage on it go ahead a lot of guys do that, but when it comes to
actually fixing those complicated engines, hardly anybody does that anymore,
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