rev up your engines, furnan Martinez and he says Scotty can you mix
different oil brands if it's the same time, for example 5w30, can I mix them
as long as their the same type but different brands, well you can because
you're not changing the viscosity or anything, I wouldn't make a point of
doing that all the time, because each manufacturer generally have different
additives to the oil, it's better not to gamble with wondering which additives
are in the oil that's in your car, it's better to kind of leave them to be
exactly the same, now of course here even I am
guessing, they don't tell you what's in them, that's their trade secrets you know,
so you never really know what's in the oil their not telling you everything, and they
say well that's a trade secret what's in it
I remember one time years ago a friend of mine was a chemical engineer and he was
showing me some of the patents for some of the different oils and boy he read them
to me and it made no sense at all, I mean they had such a weird language
that you couldn't understand what they put in the thing so your never actually going
to know but it's not a good idea to make a point of mixing
them all the time, I mean yeah sure you're a
quart low on oil and you're at a store or you're at a gas station, yeah you can
use the same as long as it's the same viscosity you can use another one, but it's
better to always stick to the same oil just because nobody really knows what
additives are in the different ones and they won't tell you, mad lever 25 says
Scotty what do you think of Ford's coyote 5 liter double overhead cam v8
engine is it reliable and the f-series trucks and Mustang, oh yeah you know the 5
liter that's a good engine, yeah some people have beefs here and there because
you understand you get double overhead cam v8 5 liter and you put in the
Mustang, guys generally beat the heck out of them, they're getting that big engine
because they want to drive like maniacs, and if you drive like enough
maniac you can break anything if you really drive it fast enough you know
I'll give you an example from the motorcycle world, I used to have a Suzuki
750 and it was a screaming motorcycle, I never had a problem with the engine or
anything in it at all, it was a unbelievable motorcycle,
but I know people that blew the engines up, now
I mean I was maybe driving at tops 130 140 miles an hour,
some guys out there were driving it as fast as they could go 180 or something, yeah
you just keep it as fast as it goes for as long
as you can eventually something will blow
up, there's no arguing that, those are good engines and the Coyotes they're
really good engines, but like anything else, if you beat the heck out of it
eventually something's gonna break if you take care of them and maintain it, you
can generally get many years of life out of those things, Jason Kenney says hey I
just bought a used 2006 Toyota Avalon with 79,000 miles, underneath around
the CV axle there's grease, what should I do,
all cars that are front-wheel drive now they got to half shafts the CV shafts, one
on the left and one on the right side, and when
there's grease around them, that means that the rubber boot has broken somehow
it's cracked and the grease is coming out, in the olden days we mechanics used
to get them and we take them apart, and if they made any noise and they were
worn, then we'd have to replace the CV joint itself and put it back on an axle
which was a pain in the butt, but these days with aftermarket parts available
they're really reasonably priced, we just replace all the axle assembly because
then you get new joints and a new rubber boots everything's new, and on that thing
a 2006 toyota, last time I bought one cost me like 75 bucks for the whole
new unit, so we just replace the whole thing, now if it doesn't make any noise
yet, you can drive it a while that way, but once it starts to make a noise
clanking and stuff then you got to replace the whole thing, so if you plan
on keeping a long time just replace the whole thing now, Jorge Santos he says
Scotty what do you think of a Buick LeSabre 2003 with 70,000 miles, it's in
great shape they want 3,400 I think I can get
them down to three grand, I'm not a GM fan but hey, there were okay cars it's
got the v6 engine in it, if you can get it for three grand with 70,000 miles
it's not that much mileage, it could be a good car to knock around in, what the
heck I mean for that kind of money these days you're not gonna get all that much,
you know if you're gonna pay 3 grand and you're looking at a Toyota or something
you're gonna have to get one that's really old with
high mileage and stuff, that's not that bad a deal for that kind of money, have it checked
out by mechanic anyway because you can't trust anybody, have him
put his little scan tool and I mean the scan tools
that we mechanics have had, hey they can't hide anything, we put it in and we got
reams of data to analyze, and the fancy tools like the one I have it's color
coded, so it's green yellow red, meaning Green is good, yellow as marginal, Red is
bad, so we look through everything fast for the colors, and we look at the yellow
and red if any exist and check what shape the car is in, so you're not gonna get
ripped once a mechanic check it out,and it could be a good car, so if you never want
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