rev up your engines, ninja geek says I got an 06
Chrysler 300c had an accident last year, the mechanic says the front end control
arms and right inner tie rods need replacement, car clunks and vibrates through
the pedal and steering wheel will this
repair help, well it certainly will if that's the problem, you
get in an accident so many things can be destroyed and bent, and front end
alignment is an art, it's not like the wheels are pointing perfectly straight
they aren't, the engineers have to decide what angle to have the wheels so they
corner best, go down the road straight it's a very scientific thing, once you
get in a wreck all bets are off because of thousandths of an inch here or there
are gonna cause problems, you can't tell that by looking at it, only an expert front
end alignment guy, when he hooks up his
equipment and he checks the alignment of the front and the rear wheels and the
frame can tell you if it's off, it takes a real pro to fix the modern cars because
when I was young there were like five different adjustments that could be done
on front-end alignments, now a lot of times the only thing that they have
adjustments for is the toe in and the toe out, the tie rod arms are adjustable to
make it sit in or out a little bit, and everything else is set in place, so a
real pro alignment guy what he does is, if it's off some, and some of the
frame is and maybe bent slightly, he'll drill holes where the struts bolt on, so
he can adjust that back and forth inside it, a real pro can do that, that's why you
need to know a good alignment guy if you ever get a car that's been in a wreck, my
advice personally, any cars when their in wrecks, you better just get rid of them
if you have to get them fixed, get them fixed and sell them, but don't keep them
because generally there's problems from now till you get rid of the car if
they're in any kind of a serious wreck to cause that kind of damage
sage Hippolyte says hey Scotty what causes cars rpm to go down when in idle
when an electrical load is applied like power windows, very good question that
generally means the first thing you want checked is have your battery load
tested, have the alternator load tested, cuz if either of those are weak when you
do the window or a headlights the idle goes down it's because you don't have enough
electrical power running it, that's the most common thing, now unfortunately what
can also happen is, if you have an electrical either power or a ground
problem that accentuates the electrical problems, and that'll make the idle go
down too, and that can be anything from your
window motors going out, to the wiring going inside it going out, to the ground
wiring going to the engine is getting weak, that can get really complex so
always start by having the battery and the alternator load tested first, Austin
Lucas says my 05 explorer is at hundred and fifty six thousand miles, I
wonder if I should change the automatic transmission fluid, I don't know if the
previous owner did, it's slightly clunky when it down shifts uphill at fifty, it's a
fourteen-year-old ford that's got 156,000 miles, I would not touch it if you don't
know the history, they shift by fluid pressure and the friction in the fluid, a
lot of times it's only the dirty fluid that's allowing them to go down the road
and if you put new fluid in they start slipping, I would leave that alone, I
would just leave it alone because from my experience of those things, it's an
explore it's got one hundred fifty six thousand miles, that's about the lifespan
of those transmissions, so I wouldn't push it I would just baby it and drive
it, R says should I buy my spark plugs at Toyota dealer or Napa, you can buy
spark plugs wherever you want, my advice I got a
whole video on it, what type of spark plugs you
put in your car, is to stick to the OEM now the Toyotas generally come with
Nippon Denso plugs, you can buy Nippon Denso plugs at NAPA it doesn't matter
Toyota does not make spark plugs, now I know some of the toyotas if you take out the
old spark plugs out it says Toyota on them, but Toyota doesn't make spark plugs, they
just payed Nippon Denso to write Toyota on those spark plugs
they don't make them themselves, as long as you stick to the original
equipment design you can buy them wherever you want just go by price you
know, I tell people if you want to save money fixing your own cars, Hey look all
over the place where prices, look online as long as it's the same part number buy
it someplace else if it's cheaper there's nothing wrong with it, just make
sure that it's real, years ago I had a customer bring me Delco parts for their
GM car, and Delco was cast on the brake caliper but it was delko instead
of Delco, and it was made in China they spelled Delco wrong so you got to watch out
for that, Donna qu says are there torque wrenches under your couch
hey good views from the other ones, yeah I got a couple of torque wrenches
under the couch, I had a contest a while back and I'm
giving them away so, pretty good eyes you know you, people are watching everything I
do you know, good thing the cameras aren't
all the time, this isn't one of those reality shows like Big Brother where
they're supposed to be following you around you know, but there are torque
wrenches under there, you hit the jackpot, so if you never want to miss
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