Rev up your engines, mike row asks scotty what do you think of
the new toyota supra coming out, ok they've been talking about it for ages and now their
actually going to come and sell them, I guess their having an auction for the first one
to make a bunch of money to help people so that's a cool idea,
now here's the thing, it's going to be a niche car it's going to be pretty expensive, it's
got a BMW straight 6 cylinder engine and a bmw zf 8 speed automatic transmission, so
it seems to me like it's more a BMW than a toyota, you know toyota has done that with
their other sports car that's pretty much a subaru, toyota's always been a company that
was never that into pure sports cars, back in the 60's they made a toyota and it was
pretty much, had a yamaha engine in it, when they did the toyota celica in the early 2000's
they had a yamaha designed engine in it, it's kind of weird that their always making their
sports cars with other companies, I guess they don't want to do the research and design,
that said it will probably be really fun to drive around I mean the BMW stuff is zippy
to run around but it's going to be kind of a niche car, it doesn't look like it's going
to be anything like the original supra that they sold a whole bunch of them, toyota made
all the stuff themselves, it's going to be a rear wheel drive 6 cylinder engine, I hope
one of my customers buys one so I can try it out and drive it around but it's probably
more of a BMW than anything else, pacheco says scotty I got a 2000 ford explorer
with 185,000 miles and it won't pass emissions, the mechanic said it needs a new alternator
and a catalytic converter is it worth fixing should I look for another SUV, it depends
what he's going to charge you and what really needs doing, is it needs an alternator that's
no big deal you can do it yourself they just bolt on and off, I've got videos on that,
replacing an alternator on your car scotty type that and youtube you'll see my video,
you'll see how easy it is to do, the catalytic converter, if it runs good enough, look at
fixing a car with a bad catalytic converter, you can put some cleaner in the gas tank and
drive it and a lot of times that will allow it when you reset the computer to pass the
emissions test, you might try that first, I wouldn't put a whole bunch of money into
it with that kind of mileage on it, if the guy is going to charge you thousands of dollars
or something I'd say forget it, but you can put an alternator on yourself or price around
it's not that hard of a job, and then try cleaning the car rather than replacing it,
cuz if it runs ok cats being inefficient the cleaner will a lot of times fix it for quite
some time, 250 says I got an old Chrysler Daytona, it
hasn't been started in 14 years, can I take it to your shop and fix it up and should I
spend money re-wiring her for the sake of it, I wouldn't, let's face it the chrysler
dodge daytonas they really weren't collectors items or anything, and it would be so much
work to get that thing up and in decent shape, it's not worth it, you'll never see the money
back, I mean if it was your grandfathers car or something and your emotionally involved
and you want to get it running and you can do it yourself, give it a try but I personally
wouldn't, it wasn't like their worth something that was really great that you'd want to bring
back like you know an old classic Mercedes from the 60's or you know a 60's mustang,
the daytonas were really never worth anything, the fattest buffalo in the west, air vs electric
impact wrenches, ok I've been an air impact wrench guy my whole life, since I was a kid
at my father's gas station, we had a big compressor, you can't beat the air tools for power, that's
why theirs air tools out there, but and this is a big but, recently they've been making
electric power tools a lot better, their higher voltage and the higher voltage they are the
more power that their going to put out, I've seen some that were 36 volts, I've talked
to other mechanics and some of them that do a lot of mobile work, they swear buy them,
they'll buy, and they don't buy a cheap one they'll buy one that's $300-400, and they'll
have 2 or 3 big battery packs with them charged up and they swear by them saying that they
can take the tires and everything off with no problems at all, just realize when you
use electric stuff, they only got a limited amount of power to get big stuff off before
they start running out, where an air compressor, all it does is use the air and then when the
air pressure gets lower it pumps it back up again and it's plugged into the wall, so if
your a traveling guy you could have an air compressor that's got a gasoline motor, you
start the gasoline motor and then that runs the compressor pretty much unlimited supply
there you don't have to worry about running out of power,
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