today I'm gonna show you why you shouldn't drive your car too far when
the suspension parts are starting to wear has too much play handles squirrely
things like this can happen no luckily for me at least not for the owner of
this car it's an older Toyota Camry so it's got a pretty solid frame and good
places to jack it up so I can check it up cuz this thing is so low now cuz it's
broken off be hard to Jack high modern car but not here because right under
here there's a Togo and when you get on here you can see the tow hook the tow
hook is right here now it's meant to pull but you can also
jack up on it so now we have the jack on it we can jack it up we can realize the
mess inside here as we look inside the ball joints come out that's broken it's
gonna need a new ball joint the axle is broken may have bent the strut we don't
know we're gonna have to take the tire off go a little bit further so get
screwdriver here long pop this cover off and we'll take off look nuts but before
we do let's go to Jack's then we have to help a little higher safety first air
here's an old trick if you work by yourself like me get a long screwdriver
start the car jam on the brake with that hand the brake panel will pull it
forward
I'll lock the wheel so he can take it off now how are you I get off last ones
gonna be a stinker cuz it's kind of wedged in you barely do it by hand I'll
just keep twirling it now let's see me and wake up huh not much room here we
have to turn the wheel son hope we can get it loose enough it's getting there
little more wetland there we go finally now you can turn the car off and assess
the damage watch pretty much destroyed the wheel it'll be a lot of damage in
there to the ball joint popped out we don't know if this is good or not it
might be wall or doubt - and the axles definitely broken it's popped out so
we're gonna have to check under the hood too looks like that's broken too that one's
ok but that one's broke now at a minimum it's got any lower ball joint
drive shaft and a strut truthfully considering the shape of this car as you
can see the paint's all faded door handles broken you know the other side
that paints off yeah this car used to be graying some fool painted black
considering we don't know what kind of shape the other side is in I rather
doubt the owners gonna spend the money he's gonna cost him now if he was to do
it yourself guy which he isn't he could go to a junkyard buy a bunch of used
parts and put him on but I'm not gonna do that because I got a guarantee my
work and I can't be using junkyard suspension parts I mean if he wanted to
do that himself let him go at it but the way this vehicle stands now I doubt it's
going anywhere except the junkyard so I called up the owner we're actually the
friend of the owner he brought it over for her friend and they said yeah that
gotta fix it so here's a lesson to be learned and a lesson is this as I've
been beating people over the head with for decades you're gonna buy a used car
this car was just bought used always always have a mechanic check it out
first having a great car like I tell you how
to Camry you don't take care of them they get old and have a lot of mileage
on it they can be endless money pits like this thing if I were to check this
out before he bought it I would have said don't buy it when you draw it
around you could feel the front end was totally shot and I told them hey I
wouldn't take that car in the highway if I were you that thing is totally shot I
had a going 40 and it was hit a bump and it would go
whole front ends on I told him that's gonna cost well over a thousand bucks to
fix and that was before I drove off now the price is gonna be even higher so
always always have a mechanic check out a car before you buy even if it's a
Toyota Camry now I'm gonna pop this back in so at least I can get it to roll on
the ground so the tow truck won't have to dry again like they did
the drag marks on the street but at least it'll roll when I'm done not
straight now it's not gonna dry it cuz it's dry chase nothing buddy at least
popped it and stuck a nail or one of the hole so at least I can push it so the
tow truck driver will have an easier job will back on a these alloy wheels where
you got to line them up you know I'll be on crooked so you gotta keep wiggling
well I get tight them up so they're lined up no I got em lined up so we can
do the other three no one put the hubcap on I don't know why well and don't
forget to remove the jack stand gonna see if we can get some air in the tire
for a while to at least move it and if use to quality air pump like this
it doesn't take long all steel construction yeah it costs more than one
of those cheap twenty golly ones this thing will last a lifetime if you take
care not least we can push it to the toe top-full have an easier job
don't buy an old used car unless a mechanic checks it out first and two don't let your
suspension system go so far that the wheels start flying off like this one
did and here's some bonus questions and answers Manolo 1991 says Scotty I want
to get rid of my money pit oh three Dodge Ram 1500 four hundred and eighty
thousand miles what 2020 pickup would you buy well if you want something big
like that I'd definitely go forward you know Toyota makes great pickup trucks
too but they're not really that type of truck you know the tacomas are great
little trucks the Tundra's are good trucks so they can last a really long
time but they're awful expensive for what you get and you really get more in
a truck with Ford f-150 is what keeping for to float I think it's like eighty
percent of their profits made from the f-150 definitely you'd be much happier
with an f-150 and your money peptides I mean you're lucky you got one hundred
eighty thousand miles out of the thing but then again I'm assuming you probably
put about your money into it too cuz you're calling it a money but you
wouldn't be doing that with the Ford table boy says thoughts on the 1979
Trans Am with a 16,000 miles for five grand
all right back at 79 Trans Am for well built I had a friend what Tommy drove
the heck on it it burned a little oil that v8 engine but it ran fine now
there's no way they're probably ever gonna prove that that thing really has
16 thousand miles on it I think it's a lie no way car that old people got Trans
Am say drove the heck out of them you know if it really wants the real mileage
on it and all the serial numbers match by it it's kind of a collector's car
worth a lot more than that but I doubt that that's the real mileage now the
main thing you want to look on that car though is those things were a notorious
rust bucket so get under there with a jack and if it crunches and you hit the
frame and stop for the hammer and the metal just crunches off it's a rust
bucket I wouldn't get 50 cents for it because then you'd have to do a
frame-off restoration it's not worth doing check that out first before you go
any further red dungeon says Scotty names red I want to buy
second-generation Ram 1500 but a five-speed and a 3.9 v6 is it worth it I
can't stand chrysler products but with a 5-speed standard and a 6-cylinder engine
if it wasn't beat-up it could be an okay truck the transmission stick with the
automatics that's a standard mechanic Jackson says it's good guys younger he
beat the heck out of the v8s with the hammies but the sixes these think I'm
kind this hard and I met some customers by those six songs for status or
reasonably happy with the guys don't pay that much they're not worth that much so
they don't have much value but if you get a good price it could be a good
Knockaround truck for doing little light jobs and stuff like that I mean don't
pay much work but I last a few years Tom Jarrett said mr. Kilmer should I saw
my 2003 Ford Econoline van with 27 or in 2000 miles 27,000 miles and that's an
03 they were still making them really good back in hosiery and with that kind
of mileage you got tons of life left don't waste your money and get a new fan
that thing is solid built that'd be like going from a swimming pool into what
boiling cauldron not seen with new stuff that's higher tech but isn't gonna last
as long and if it's 27,000 original miles and you're the original owner you
know that's real keep it don't waste your money
don't throw it away taglio says Scotty I got a 93 Jeep Wrangler Ron's a little
rough I think it's the injectors what do you think well geez that thinks 27 years
old could be thousands of things if you tried the spark plugs the air filter the
fuel filter and it still is yeah try my video how to clean fuel injectors
without removal have them pressure clean it could easily be that because those
had returned with systems even back then and they have a tendency of having fuel
dirt getting in the injectors the injectors have tiny little screens that
are screen filters they will clog up over time and that cleaner can clean
them out so what the heck why not try bet if you've tried other stuff have to
happen hat try spark plugs you know all that stuff first Dan Dunlevy says what's
the best tool for removing a rounded off boat well they make various sockets that
fit on them there's a company called Rockets socket they make a very good
socket Rovers rocket socket can't forget that put them on and like you put it on
the bolt and then kind of hit it with a sledgehammer to
make it tight and then try to get it off it's a reverse thread rips it off now if
it's really messed up you can do a trick if you know how to weld if you don't pay
a welder you get another ball and you well that on top of the rounded one and
you know how to weld that weld strong the weld is stronger than a steel it's
welded to they want you well the new bolt on top you just put around your
socket on that bolt the whole thing comes up I have done that hundreds of
time in my career when something's really messed up like down here in Texas
it's not bad things don't rust unless you live in a Gulf Coast and drive on
the beach but every once in a while somebody brings a car down here from
Detroit or Cleveland or Buffalo or Montreal all the bolts are rusted I get
on my torch to start weld and stuff on together
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