rev up your engines, you go says Scotty my
engine oil is a little higher than the
full mark does it matter or do I need to take
a little bit out well I take a little
bit out until it was on the line but I mean
if it's less than half a quarter doesn't
that hurt a thing and make sure you do
this to check the oil first thing in the
morning on a flat level surface cuz I
had a customer once tell me
Scotty there's no oil in my engine and I
checked it it was empty and he brought it to
me and I checked it was totally full
and I said I don't know what you've done
but it's full there's nothing wrong with
it
turns out he was checking it was parked
on a hill and so it read zero but it was
totally full so always do it first thing
in the morning when he engine is cold on
a flat surface cuz engine oil is heats
up expands a little bit and it will go
up and down son Garrett says hey Scotty
when I Drive over 5,000 rpm I get a
weird sulfur smell happens on a lot of
cars I've driven there's only two
reasons you can get sulfur smell numero
uno is if you've got cheap gas that has
too much salt or in it
the sulfur will get in the catalytic
converter and it will smell like rotten
eggs coming out of the tailpipe so if
you smell it go to the tailpipe take
some whiffs if you smell come out of
there it's a sulfated catalytic
converter and try cleaning it out with
some cleaner and buy gas somewhere else
the only other thing that can do it is
if your battery's going out batteries
have sulfuric acid can smell like rotten
eggs and if you have an alternator
that's either overcharging a battery and
making it bubble or just a shot battery
that's sulfated inside you'll get that
solver smell so it's either your
catalytic converter or your battery
those are the only things like I really
can smell like sulfur
unless you've driven your car through
Hades and it has some hades dust on it
Joe it says hey Scotty why am I getting
eight miles a gallon less on my 05
Toyota Camry after I put a used
transmission well either the guy didn't
put the transmission in right or you got
a bad transmission because the
transmission shifts gears if it shifts
gears too late and stays in the lower
gears longer you're gonna get bad gas
miles that's just the way that it goes
now one thing you could certainly check
is once you get on highway and your in
overdrive when you're in the final gear
drive it somewhere for a couple hundred
miles going on a trip see what kind of
gas mileage you get
when it's on a highway going 65 and make
sure that it's in overdrive that it
shifted that many times it's in the
final gear it should get normal gas
mileage then if it does it just means
that it's shifting to the final gear not
correctly and it stays in the lower
gears too long and you're gas mileage will be
horrible I've seen that that's the thing
about buying a used transmission it's
pot luck shaking the dice and hope and
good numbers come up buying a used
transmission you don't get any guarantee
you don't know so I tell people I'm a
transmissions putting news ones in it's
riverboat gambling on that stuff, Reaper
says my 91 suzuki motorcycle
eats oil can't be the valve stems well
of course it can but what you could tell
if a vehicle is burning oil generally
either the valve stems go bad and it
sucks them in or the piston rings wear
so what you do is you do a wet and dry
compression check on the engine take out
the spark plugs do a compression test
then you put like a half a teaspoon of
oil on each cylinder and then take the
compression readings and if the
compression ratings go up a lot that
means the piston rings are gone because
that seals on that oil if they don't go
up a lot that means the valve seals are
bad because adding oil does nothing to
the valve seals if they're leaking it
won't affect the pressure just sucks oil
in when the intake opens, embassy picture
says is a used Buick Regal a good buy as a first car well if it's low enough
mileage and it runs good it can be fine
I had a customer he paid a grand for a
used one of those years ago for his
daughter and she drove it but she hated
the car she said it was a grandpa car so
he ended up giving hers his car and
then he drove it as his work car and he
drove it for years they only paid a
thousand bucks for it they can be decent
cars but like anything else don't pay
much for a used one and have a mechanic
check it out before you buy it
use cars like the old saying goes, would you
buy a used car from this man, you can't
trust anybody
so you have to have a mechanic check it
out to see if there was any fishy things
going on but we hook our machines up
most of the fishy things if they're
there they'll pop up with our scan tool
our scan tools do thousands of things
it's very hard to fool somebody with one
of those knows how to operate it, the
British are planning on going a lot
now aiming to make all the new cars sold
there to be electric cars by the Year
2035 now that's a long time from now hey
a lot of things can happen it'll be a
lot of water under the bridge between
now and 2035 but I recently got back
from England and all I have to say is
damn enough problems they're already
with their electrical grid and the whole
bunch cars more on to it hey good luck
talk to some guys in Canada where the
gala counts a hydroelectric power about
electric efficient and they even
admitted they said iron infrastructure
couldn't take all these electric cars
being charged up deliver it to people we
don't have the ability to generate that
amount of electricity and you know you
can talk big but actually switching all
that infrastructure stuff around
I could see China doing it first because
it's a communist country it's a
dictatorship they could say you can only
buy these cars and they have no choice
but the English are pretty free minded
people huh
I don't know if I could see the English
people accepting something like that
that they can only do this they put
brexit in and they want to get out of
European Union and then of course all
the rich people tried to stop and say
that wasn't right
but you know the people were able to
vote on that one at least and get out of
that ridiculous situation they had going
on in Europe now as their government's
trying to tell them that they can only
buy electric cars I mean I like to see
them implement it yeah well perhaps
we'll find out if I'm still around 15
years from now
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