rev up your engines
Joe says got a good question Scotty is
it possible for oil filters that have
outstanding filtration to actually
restrict the flow, if there were
incorrectly built yes but the good ones
all of them have them but the good ones
have even better bypass systems on the
valves cheapy ones have plastic bypass
valves but the expensive ones can't a
steel bypass valve that's better made so
you really don't have to worry about if
you buy a high one like Bosch or
something like that because they're
better built filters and they do filter
better but they're not gonna cause
restrictions because they have bypass if
the pressure gets too high just bypass
it and it's dirty and it's time to
change it anyways and those filters are
so good that if you do change your oil
regularly when you're supposed to you're
not gonna clog the things up this 2012
honda crosstour
scotty i was told by two individual to
Costco fuel is bad for your car that's a
wives tale old wives tale that people
just pass them on as time goes on in the
United States all gasoline sold is
regulated by the government of what they
have to have is a minimum standard some
are a little better than others they
call the top tier gas but any of them or
run your car perfectly fine and realize
that in any given area most of the
gasoline only comes from one particular
refinery anyways and then the other
companies buy them
maybe shall refined it but Exxon
assembling the same gas as their own
putting a different color dye in it
maybe putting a couple additives in it
but it's all basically the same gasoline
in the area that you're buying it from
anyway so don't be fooled by these old
wives tales, here's something I see
unfortunately all too commonly I had a
new customer they had a Ford Fusion and
the brake pedal kept sinking and they
looked I said no leaks or anything so
they replaced the brake master cylinder
and the brake pedal continued to sink so
I did the usual cuz I can't believe
anybody I pulled all the four wheels off
and the leaks put on my scam tool didn't
show that there were any problem with
anti-lock brake systems they're like
brake systems say the modulators going
bad and it opens up when it's not your
brake pedal it'll sink to the floor too
I looked I saw he had a brand new brake
master cylinder but it was one that was
made in China I said hmm
I'm gonna go get paint factory original
equipment the OEM one I did I put it on
then hard as a rock
brakes worked fine do not buy ultra
cheap Chinese parts if you're gonna you
using brake systems brake systems your
life is on the line do you really want a
chance with some part that may not hold
up this in this case hey at least it
didn't work from the get-go it wasn't
like it was working good and then he
slammed it on and gets on a wreck
because then it breaks it didn't work
from the beginning, but so lesson to be
learned when it comes to brakes you don't
want to go using the cheapest part you
can get your hands on, so says I
got a 05 freestyle the AC only both
cold when I accelerate what's the cause
when you're accelerating that spins the
alternator faster that spins the
compressor faster and that when you slow
down and go to a steady speed the
process of spin and slower the
alternator spinning slower first thing
I'd say just check the refrigerant level
have a mechanic put a set of gauges if
you don't know how to do it could be as
simple as low on refrigerant also have
the battery in the alternator load tested
because if that's weak it spins faster
it works then spins slower doesn't could be
an
electrical problem that's one of those
two that's probably the problem, hate my
band says Scotty could a bad strut caused
the
inner joint on a drive axle to where
snap off if they are really bad struts
or if they're bent yes because if
they're really bad then instead of going
over the bumps like that it would be
going like that it'll be straining it
too much and of course if it's bent and
if the struts actually bent from hitting
something say it's been out more then
it's actually pulling a joint out and it
will break off more I have seen that
happen also if you do have an axle break
off first thing you want to check is the
motor mounts because the most common
thing is either a motor mount or
transmission mounts broken then it hops
up and down and it snaps the joint off
nuts question is Nick, hey Scotty any
recommendations on a good sports bike
for a newbie yeah I'd say get either a honda
or a Suzuki 600 those are screaming
bikes they don't break the only thing is
they're fast they're super fast and you
can easily kill yourself if you are a
newbie you might think about a little
bit less power you might get one of
those Kawasaki 400 or
something that's smaller it does
you might even go to a 250 or something
if you're afraid of there's so much
power but if you're gonna learn
seriously the Honda or the Suzuki 600s
their screaming bikes I mean you
never need anything faster than that
really unless you're racing them for
money, Joe says whatever
happened to Saturn
well you know Saturn was always General
Motors but they opened up their own
plant they did the we want to be in your
tire company and they had it open all
summer so people in the summer vacation
could visit the factory and all this
thought there was a big rhubarb because
it was still owned by GM and they were
whining because they wanted special
treatment and then they started moving
the workers around and saying you all
work for GM and they ended up shutting
the plants down part of it was because
they came up with an okay idea the
Quality Control in the beginning was a
little bit weak but then they tried to
build something that they weren't that
good at the original ones were
four-cylinder engines then they came out
with a v6 but that was a Honda engine
and Honda refused to sell the engines
anymore because GM said oh well we're
not going to use your special Honda
cooler and they said you have to use the
Honda coolant and on two v6 engines and
GM just said no we got our Dexcool we
put them in all our products so Honda
said we won't sell you engines anymore
then Saturn decided to build their own
v6 engine was a rolling pile of crap I
had a neighbor who had one and it fell
apart and so they started making
mistakes and then they just shut the
whole thing down that's kind of it in a nutshell,
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