rev up your engines, furnan
Martinez and he says Scotty can you mix
different oil brands if it's the same
time, for example 5w30, can I mix them
as long as their the same type but
different brands, well you can because
you're not changing the viscosity or
anything, I wouldn't make a point of
doing that all the time, because each
manufacturer generally have different
additives to the oil, it's better not to
gamble with wondering which additives
are in the oil that's in your car, it's
better to kind of leave them to be
exactly the same, now of course here even
I am
guessing, they don't tell you what's in
them, that's their trade secrets you know,
so you never really know what's in the oil
their not telling you everything, and they
say
well that's a trade secret what's in it
I remember one time years ago a friend of
mine was a chemical engineer and he was
showing me some of the patents for some of
the different oils and boy he read them
to me and it made no sense at all, I mean
they had such a weird language
that you couldn't understand what they
put in the thing so your never actually going
to know but it's
not a good idea to make a point of mixing
them
all the time, I mean yeah sure you're a
quart low on oil and you're at a store
or you're at a gas station, yeah you can
use the same as long as it's the same
viscosity you can use another one, but it's
better to always stick to the same oil
just because nobody really knows what
additives are in the different ones and
they won't tell you, mad lever 25 says
Scotty what do you think of Ford's
coyote 5 liter double overhead cam v8
engine is it reliable and the f-series
trucks and Mustang, oh yeah you know the 5
liter that's a good engine, yeah some
people have beefs here and there because
you understand you get double overhead
cam v8 5 liter and you put in the
Mustang, guys generally beat the heck out
of them, they're getting that big engine
because they want to drive like
maniacs, and if you drive like enough
maniac you can break anything if you
really drive it fast enough you know
I'll give you an example from the
motorcycle world, I used to have a Suzuki
750 and it was a screaming motorcycle, I
never had a problem with the engine or
anything
in it at all, it was a unbelievable motorcycle,
but I
know people that blew the engines up, now
I mean I was maybe driving at tops 130
140 miles an hour,
some guys out there were driving it as
fast as they could go 180 or something, yeah
you
just keep it as fast as it goes for as long
as
you can eventually something will blow
up, there's no arguing that, those are
good engines and the Coyotes they're
really good engines, but like anything
else, if you beat the heck out of it
eventually something's gonna break if
you take care of them and maintain it, you
can generally get many years of life out
of those things, Jason Kenney says hey I
just bought a used 2006 Toyota Avalon
with 79,000 miles, underneath around
the CV axle there's grease, what should I
do,
all cars that are front-wheel drive now
they got to half shafts the CV shafts, one
on the left and one on the right side, and
when
there's grease around them, that means
that the rubber boot has broken somehow
it's cracked and the grease is coming
out, in the olden days we mechanics used
to get them and we take them apart, and
if they made any noise and they were
worn, then we'd have to replace the CV
joint itself and put it back on an axle
which was a pain in the butt, but these
days with aftermarket parts available
they're really reasonably priced, we just
replace all the axle assembly because
then you get new joints and a new rubber
boots everything's new, and on that thing
a 2006 toyota, last time I bought
one cost me like 75 bucks for the whole
new unit, so we just replace the whole
thing, now if it doesn't make any noise
yet, you can drive it a while that way,
but once it starts to make a noise
clanking and stuff then you got to
replace the whole thing, so if you plan
on keeping a long time just replace the
whole thing now, Jorge Santos he says
Scotty what do you think of a Buick
LeSabre 2003 with 70,000 miles, it's in
great shape they want 3,400 I think I can
get
them down to three grand, I'm not a GM
fan but hey, there were okay cars it's
got the v6 engine in it, if you can get
it for three grand with 70,000 miles
it's not that much mileage, it could be a
good car to knock around in, what the
heck I mean for that kind of money these
days you're not gonna get all that much,
you know if you're gonna pay 3 grand and
you're looking at a Toyota or something
you're gonna have to get one that's
really old with
high mileage and stuff, that's not that bad
a deal for that kind of money, have it checked
out by mechanic anyway
because you can't trust anybody, have him
put his little scan tool and I mean the scan
tools
that we mechanics have had, hey they can't
hide anything, we put it in and we got
reams of data to analyze, and the fancy
tools like the one I have it's color
coded, so it's green yellow red, meaning
Green is good, yellow as marginal, Red is
bad, so we look through everything fast
for the colors, and we look at the yellow
and red if any exist and check what shape
the car is in, so you're not gonna get
ripped once a mechanic check it out,and it
could be a good car, so if you never want
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