rev your engines, today I'm gonna show you how not to start your car if you want to
keep your engine lasting longer not do any damage most cars are made to just
start turn the key start you don't have to do anything they're all fuel-injected
you don't want to touch the accelerator it doesn't need touching and if you
forgot that your cars running do not turn the key to start it again now doing
so won't instantly destroy your car the starters are built smartly enough course
the original ones weren't and they would have burnt out, but the Bendix Drive, the
starter has a little gear that pops out and that meshes with the flywheel and
spins the engine realize that the starter gear will free will if you do
engage it it will spin the starter that's why if you start your car up and
rev it up while you're starting it the engine can Rev and it doesn't do any
real damage because the flywheel is already engaged to the starter gear and
the starter gear will freewheel it'll just spin so it won't destroy anything
if you do it when you're starting at first I mean it's not a good idea to
leave it cranking forever anyway but if you forget that won't hurt anything but
if the car's already started and then you hit the starter again as that Bendix
Drive pops out generally it's gonna mash against the spinning flywheel make
horrible noises, now that's not a good thing if you do it many times
gear on the starter and a Bendix Drive will start getting chipped but that's
the least of your worries because starters don't cost all that much it can
be easily replaced but that's not the case or the flywheel bolts to the back
of the engine when you turn the key the starter teeth engage on the flywheel
it's a 360 degree circle and it just spins on the gears spins the flywheel
well if you start chipping the teeth off on a flywheel since the flywheel is
between the engine and the transmission you got to pull either the engine of the
transmission out in order to change the flywheel a gigantic pain and the
rear-end job now in most cases it's easier pulling a transformation but
still most people drive automatic transmissions they're very heavy they're
a royal pain to pull off of a car you don't want to have to
do something like that because you weren't paying attention and you turn
the starter on when the engine was already running another thing not to do
when you start your car is don't wrap your engine up the worst time for your
engine is when it's said all night then you start it up the lubrication the oil
has to be pumped all through the system you got to build up oil pressure it's
got to go from the bottom sump pump all the way up to the overhead cams and the
valves you don't want to just start it and rev it up start it and just let it
run for a few seconds it doesn't take more than a few seconds for the engine
to get oil pressure all over the place but since about 90 percent of your
engine wear and the metal parts occurs during startup you don't matter we have
your engine up right when you start it up no that's a good idea to turn all
your accessories off before you start the car but in modern cars is not really
all that big of a deal because modern cars given its 94 Celica it has relays
for the air conditioning system and other system so that when you start the
car there isn't any kind of voltage surge that can destroy the air
conditioning system or the radio or whatever and really today it's only
gonna consume such a small amount of electricity it really doesn't matter now
if you're driving an old junker and your battery's going out in the engines huh
if you're not gonna go out and buy a brand new battery it's a good idea to
turn everything off before you start it cuz you might drain enough out that's a
car won't start but leaving stuff on when you crank the
car these days that's an old wives tale that doesn't fit anymore it's not gonna
hurt anything if you got turn the a/c off there's relays for all that stuff
but if you do have a poorly made car like a Fiat and they're full of relays
yeah those relays will burn out faster if you don't turn everything off because
they're so poorly made and they got tons of realize all over the place so for us
things turn everything off before you start a car and to make sure your car
starts you every time hey do like I do make sure you got clean battery
terminals here now I do have to say there's a little bit crud here but
that's not a terminal that's on the whole down strap I need to clean it
paint you can see the paint's come off and it's all rusty now corrosion is the
enemy of electrical system you see any corrosion cleaner then
seal it with some anti-corrosion paint when you're done you don't want to have
any kind of corrosion car might not start because all this stuff is gotten
eaten up simple thing to check once in a while
clean it off with a brush spray it with some cleaner perhaps one of the most
forgotten things when you're starting your car is the whole battery's negative
and positive positive one feeds all the positive wires but the negative one
grounds the entire car if you don't have ground circuits it's not gonna work make
sure this end is clean and follow the other end to make sure that the ground
is nice and clean and not corroded these growlers are often hidden all over the
place often under things we can't even see them engine the chassis ground has a
lot of vibration sometimes they get loose check them every once in a while
if they're corroded take them off clean them and bolt them back on I have had so
many customers come to me with starting problems and alls it was was a corroded
or loose contact on any of the terminals from either the positive or the negative
of the battery and if you are worried worried about your car not starting
somewhere get a jumper pack not in your trunk because jumper cables hey they're
fine they work great if they're thick and quality but you need another battery
to jump on but and if you're stuck in a bad neighborhood
nothing beats popping in your trunk getting that jumper out jumping and
driving away because that's one situation where hey you might just start
your car rev it up and take off as fast as you can, now you know things not
to do when you're starting your car so it will last as long as possible, so if
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