rev up your engines, Alex says Scotty show us your car
collection, well it wouldn't be much of a collection cuz I don't collect cars, I
fix them for other people I'm really into motorcycles myself but I don't
collect them either, yeah it's kind of a weird thing collecting vehicles, yeah
you know guys like Jay Leno it's kind of weird you know they got all these
bunches of vehicles, but that's kind of a waste of space really, you know you can
only drive one thing at a time, yeah I'm not a museum, I've got a Triumph
Thruxton motorcycle and I love it, it's the most beautiful motorcycle I've had
and it's not the fastest I mean it only goes like 120 miles an hour, it's not the
fastest I ever had, it's the most solid and most
beautiful looking one, and with cars to me they're transportation, and you know
I'm using my 94 celica for work car and my wife's got a Lexus but I only
paid 3 grand for that one that had 60,000 miles, I'm not a collector of cars, you know
I work on other people's cars and I appreciate them when they bring their
classics here and I work on them for them and
say oh nice car, I have fun driving them around but owning them, meh it's not something I'm
interested in, you can't take it with you just remember
that, I'm getting older and when you're gone you take with you what you came in on
the earth with, nothing but yourself, capti says what do you think of the
new Jags, well not much but I didn't take much of the old Jags either, now realize
Jaguars were actually excellent cars state of the art, when we go back in the
nineteen thirties, forties, fifties and I mean they were putting some state of the
art stuff in and there were true sports cars they raced them in races, but you
know since the 60s their quality is just down, and now Jaguar is owned by the
Indian company Tata and those things aren't even that popular in India and
they owned Jaguar now, I would not waste my money on a Jag, I mean if you
really have to get a Jaguar, what you do is buy one that's low mileage that's
older, the resale value is nothing on those things, and if you want to get it
cheap and then as it ages and you find out it falls apart, you don't know that
much money to lose, or like some guys they'll get a really old one and they'll throw
the engine away and put in a Chevy v8 engine, hey you might try that
if you really want to get, but I wouldn't buy no one waste of money, seven iffy
asks, why isn't alfa romeo more popular in the States
cuz their Italian cars they fall apart, now they used to sell them the United
States decades ago I had customers with them and I used to work on a lot of
sports cars, I worked on a lot of them, and they were always breaking down,
the Italian technology's not made to last, it's like fast but no
last, and the parts were super expensive, well of course now they're selling them again
because Fiat who owns Alfa Romeo bought Chrysler and they're trying to
import all their cars and sell them over here, but I see reason to buy one unless
you're ultra wealthy and you want to say you got an alfa romeo sports car, for
for tons tons less you can get a Mazda Miata, and yes it's not as fast but it handles
quite well and it doesn't break and it goes forever and forever, and look at the
Italian car it costs a fortune you know that thing is gonna break down, Jacco 7 says
Scotty what do you think about a golf for 1.9 TDI, I'm not a Volkswagen fan
since they stopped making the Beatles, the air-cooled Beatles from the 60s and
the 70s when they stopped making those their quality kind of went down, I have
customers with ones that have those turbo diesel engines, and they can run a
long time now Volkswagen did cheat with an emissions thing, made them so that
they had a lot more power and got better gas mileage, but they were cheating on
the emissions and then when you got them inspected the computer would know it was
being inspected, so then it would go to the other software where you didn't get
as much power and didn't get the same gas mileage, but it would pass the
emissions, well they got caught on that so it's a no no on them, but those things
can actually last quite some time the diesel, if you don't mind driving one of those
little bitty diesels they are pretty well made I do have to admit it
cake says Scotty how reliable is a tonawanda Chevy 454 from 1991, ok well I'm
originally from Niagara Falls and a lot of guys in Tonawanda there's a lot of Polish
Americans living there, all the guys I knew were polish Americans, those are
really good engines they're still making engines in Tonawanda for GM, those 454
are good solid engines they make good engines back then, and that same plant
they made the they made the dive-bombers in world war 2, so they were you know they
made some pretty quality stuff there in tonawanda
the problem is most of that stuff's all gone, the last time I went back to visit
my mother there, and I drove by it's on the waterfront going to Buffalo between
Niagara Falls and Buffalo, all these factors were gone and they leveled them
all and they made these beautiful parks on the waterfront where kids are flying
kites and stuff, so the jobs a lot of them aren't there anymore, but they didn't
make the waterfront look nice I'll give them that
Jana Brown says what's the easiest way to change a flywheel on a 1996 chevy
s10, well the easiest way is you pull the transmission off, once you get the
transmission off then there's the flywheel on the engine and you can
unbolt it and put another one on, pull the engine is a harder job it just is
they weigh more it's more bull work involved, anytime you need to do any work
on the back of the engine it's easier to pull the transmission off than it is to
pull the engine off, especially on those older things, those older rear wheel
drive ones they're pretty easy to get those trannies off it's not that big of
a deal, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos
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