rev up your engines
maybe we'll be driving Amazon vehicles
in the future
Amazon's putting a lot of push into
driven technology they put 700 million
into that Rivian the electric truck
company in Michigan and they have a
whole bunch of patents that they have
recently done that are in the auto
related field now they are going to tell
you exactly what they're doing but it
sure looks like they're thinking about
getting into the self-driving technology
into Uber type technology bezos is no
fool now everybody laughed at him when
he sold books at Amazon and said oh you
know he'll never make money selling
books online kind of a fool is he well
look at him here he was a richest guy to
planet so he's got some pretty good
business savvy there and I would
personally watch what this guy is doing
in the automotive business generally has
plans that go fine in the future just
like the Japanese when they thought 5-10
years in the future now a lot of people
are driving Japanese cars so who knows
we might be driving Amazon cars in the
future, Justin William said Ford 500
limited 181 thousand miles is it a good
buy well that's fascinating question
I got one sitting on a driveway right
now I'm doing a brake job on its 2015
Ford 500 the guy bought it a year ago
for 3,000 bucks he loves the vehicle
they can be excellent vehicles but you
want to check it out before you buy
because here's the one thing they came
with both CVT transmissions and 6-speed
automatic transmissions contrary to what
I normally say that I'd never buy a CVT
in that case I would buy the Ford CVT
transmission and not the 6-speed
automatic because the 6-speed automatic
sent a lot of problems in those so if
you find it's the CVT transmission you
pay a little like my customer did three
grand that might be a good knock around
car you got a great deal puts his tools
and he drives all over the place in it,
James Francois says how do I know if my
alternator is bad well when it's really
bad the car won't start the alternator
charges the battery if it stops charging
the battery run of power and either
won't start when you try to crank under
you'll be driving down a road and the
car will die and then when you try to
crank it nothing will happen now you can
also tell when it's starting to go out
if the bearings are wearing out bearings
in the front of it bearings in the back
of it starts roaring and make a lot of
noise they're bad and you can always pay
mechanic like me too
run a load test where you low test the
charging system and see is it putting
out enough voltage it doesn't have diode
ripple problems and that all takes a
fancy machine takes me about three
minutes to run and they can tell you
know a lot on auto parts stores do that
for free, rss says Scotty I had my
transmission fluid changed my 2015 Jeep
Patriot with 60,000 miles not shifting
hard what's going on Jeep max jump these
days since fiat took over they're worse
than they were when you change fluid in
a vehicle that makes the viscosity
usually less more slippery and now if
it's slipping that can happen because
they're so poorly made now in olden days
we changed the fluid every 30,000 miles
and we never had any problems but now
they tell you oh you have to change its
lifetime fluid or whatever I'm assuming
the guy put the right fluid in find out
if it's the right fluid and the right amount
cuz I have
seen with friends of my customers who
ended up becoming my customers they'd
have it changed and then it would do
that I'd say well bring it to me and
then I would drain it all out and then
I'd fill it up and I find out that they
didn't put enough fluid in there they
put too much fluid in and caused
problems there are a lot of idiots out
there these days
you have to pay a guy like
me who knows all the processes to do
everything to do to see if it's gonna be
full when you're done cuz if it's not
full or if it's overfull you could
have problems could be the guy just
screwed up when he changed it, creative
minds 99 says I got an 06 Jeep
Liberty the AC blow is called but it
freezes up for an hour or two on the road
ok when they freeze up after and hour or two
what's happening is your evaporator is
freezing solid and it freezes solid
because the temperature sensor that's on
the evaporator has gone bad how they
work is the compressor compresses the
refrigerant then it expands in the
evaporator and absorbs heat it's the
heat sink is what it is there's a
temperature bulb that pushes onto the
evaporator in the dash and once the
temperature gets below like 40 or 39
degrees before it gets below 32 where it
freezes it turns the compressor off when
that system doesn't work right the
compressor just continues to run and
that can freeze it up so what you want
to try is and I don't know sometimes
without having to take the dash part don't
use
the recirculated air or use fresh air
and always have the blower on full blast
cuz we had a Toyota that used to do that
we went the Galveston to Houston we went
down in the daytime it wouldn't freeze
up but coming back it would at night and
I found that by putting it on fresh air
and not recirculate it was getting hot
air coming in and with a fan on full
blast it could never freeze up and it
never did if you run the fresh air full
blast odds are it won't freeze up
because is the air is hot outside like
here today it's gonna be 99 that 99
degree air coming in fresh on that
evaporator odds are it's never gonna be
able to freeze it's too hot so try that
otherwise you gotta to take the whole dash
apart in
those jeeps it cost a fortune to do that,
som says Scotty what couldn't be the
consequences of driving with the leaking
exhaust manifold is it worth it to try
JB well there's similar product to fix
it generally you can't fix leaks on the
exhaust with j-b weld it's too hot
they'll break off the only thing that
can actually work let's say you got a
cast-iron exhaust manifold
it's welding it up and like say there's
a crack what you do is you drill a hole
at each end of the crack so the crack
doesn't expand then you weld the seam
and that's totally doable if you don't
anybody use a good weld or if you're
going wild yourself but no epoxies gonna
seal those things for long he gets to
idle crack and break off years ago I
tried for customers but they never
lasted on you got either well done or
replacing and if you don't and it's
leaking what it can do is it can
actually eventually even burn the valves
of your engine by making it run too late
so it is something you want to fix plus
if it's leaking out a lot you can get
carbon monoxide poisoning you are
breathing that stuff in while you're driving
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