10 Things I Have to Tell You Before My Channel Gets Shut Down

rev up your engines if you want to learn how to work on your car and do it right there's a few things that are really a necessity to have they don't cost that much money and i'm going to show you what you need and how to use them so you can fix your own car not spending a fortune not wasting your money on either super expensive repairs or super expensive tools that you're hardly ever going to use now the first thing i'm going to talk about is this at205 reseal it is a clear polymer it looks like water as you can see when i pour it in a dirty glass it really looks just like water but it isn't it's a liquid polymer formulation and what it does is it can stop leaks in rubber seals the polymers rejuvenate the rubber now i've been using this stuff for over three decades especially stuff's gonna cost a fortune let's say you got a transmission front main seal leak that's leaking on the front of the transmission or you have an engine rear main seal where the transmission bolts into the engine the seal on the back of the engine is the rear main sail of the engine and the seal in the front of the transmission is the front main seal of the transmission with age those seals will leak to replace either one of them you have to at a minimum pull the transmission out of the car you could pull the engine out but it's usually easier to take the transmission off than the engine either way it's a gigantic job being a polymer this stuff works in engine oil but also in transmission fluid and what it does is it rejuvenates the rubber and it can stop leaking i have used this hundreds of times guys will come with an automatic transmission it's leaking the front seal dripping between the engine and the transmission and it's dripping transmission fluid i would put a bottle of this stuff in pour it in the transmission you would just pour it in there to drive it maybe 200 miles doesn't matter right away or over time i put it in a volvo once when you poured the transmission fluid and you could see it dripping out as soon as you poured it in one time i poured a bottle of this in while i washed it within five minutes the drip actually stopped and the same thing with rear main engine oil seals of the engine now with the transmission if it seals it great it's in there you just leave it alone but if it's in the engine then every time you change the engine though you'd have to put a bottle in but i mean really if the bottle costs you 14 bucks and you're saving over a thousand dollars who really cares stuff works great like i said i've been using it for over three decades and the interesting thing is being a polymer it doesn't have any solids in it there's a lot of sealers out there you see them you shake them up you see all these solids they can clog up your transmission and clog up your engine this stuff doesn't clog anything up so you can use it in any system that uses petroleum-based oils you know you can put it in engines transmissions rear ends differentials now you can use it in power steering but realize power steering pumps they sometimes have 1500 pounds per square inch pressure occasionally this will actually rejuvenate seals and it can stop leaking but there's so much more pressure you got a lot less odds of it working in a 1500 psi system than you do in an automatic transmission where maybe it's pumping out 45 psi versus 1500 you can't expect miracles all the time i used to have to search around for this stuff but now i just go to amazon buy them at a case at a time you can get it one at a time too if you want i just buy it by the case it's cheaper now let's say your radiator's leaking coolant maybe a rock hit it or maybe it's just old age if unfortunately let's say your head gasket is leaking if your head gas is leaking externally so that you see the coolant coming on the outside of the engine this bar's leaks can work quite well because in a radiator system you don't have that much pressure it might be 12 14 16 pounds per square inch that's not that much pressure now if your head gasket is blowing inside the engine you don't see it leaking externally but it's burning it inside you could try various sealers bar actually makes a head gas concealer it's worth trying but then you've got the explosion of the engine and again you're dealing with thousands of psi pressure when the gasoline ignites and the odds of sealer sealing that much pressure is kind of slim but since your radiator system itself if it's leaking outside the engine and it's just the cooling jackets it's only like i say 1416 psi this stuff can work quite well i've used it for years i put them in cars sometimes the radiator will last for three or four years before it starts leaking again sometimes they never start leaking again and the advantage of this is as you can see on the label here works with water or antifreeze and the real important part is this used with all types of coolant including yellow orange pink red blue and green silicate base the non-silicon based oat hoat antifreeze and or water so you can use it in anything now they do give you a logical warning on the bottle which is totally true if your cooling system is totally clogged up and filthy and rusty you got to flush it out first you don't just pour this in an absolute clunky system since it works with water or coolant you could flush it all out just put water in and then put this stuff in see if it works if it doesn't work maybe you're going to get rid of the car maybe you're going to replace the radiator but you're not wasting the money of putting new cool and then put this in and find it out that you're gonna have to buy an expensive part just don't put it in a completely clogged up system i've had people say oh joy did sealer clogged up my car no if your car was clogged up in the first place yeah it can clog it up and if it's the wrong kind of sealer let's say it's a sealer made for the old green antifreeze but you have bread antifreeze that can make the red antifreeze clog up if you put it in a red antifreeze system when the sealer was only made for the green and other sealers they only work with water it'll say flush everything out only put water and then put this in this can go with water coolant anything it's permanent you can leave it in i've been using this stuff for decades basically what happens is you can see the silver parts it's hot inside and where it leaks out it's being put out at a high pressure and then it leaks out to our atmosphere that has oxygen well this stuff when it's hot and under pressure and it comes in contact with oxygen it hardens and seals it up like i say i put it in some cars three four years later they're still driving them down the road i mean it's really a worthwhile thing to try if you've got something and maybe it's all clunky you don't want to put much money in it or let's say you're on a trip or something and a rock hit your radiator hey maybe just buy a bottle of this throw in a trunk like i do i got a can of it the trunk all my cars you never know i drive old cars 15 20 30 years old it's a handy thing to have now the next handy thing i'm talking about comes accounts called plexus it is a plastic cleaner protectant polish i've been using this thing for decades i started on motorcycles i found it at a motorcycle shop and the motorcycle shop went out of business i couldn't find a place to buy it anymore but of course that was over a decade ago now thanks to amazon you can get it in two seconds i ordered it came the next day stuff is amazing it was originally invented for planes with those plexiglas stones to polish them and to keep them from being corroded it has a light polish in it but it's also got to protect it and it's anti-static so it actually keeps dust from being attractive a lot of that dust has attracted your car by static electricity this neutralizes it and it will actually stay cleaner longer now it's good on any kind of plastic but the main use headlights they're clear you want them clean but you don't want to scratch them up and do as a direction say do not use paper towels use a nice microfiber towel you don't want to scratch anything you just spray it on and wipe it off that's it now check it out these are five-year-old headlights look how they still shine now i originally bought this matrix from my wife from a guy from arizona so it was in the areas of the sun and the only thing that's really bad about toyota and lexus is a lot of their plastic headlight assemblies aren't that well made for ultraviolet protection and they fade so the original headlights faded as you can tell these aren't the stock factory ones i got the darker ones that look cooler i put these on five years ago but three or four times a year i spray them and polish them with this plexus they still look brand new the ultra protectant on this thing keeps them from fading away now they claim that this not only cleans and polishes but that it actually seals the micro pores in the plastic to keep them from both fading and then eventually cracking well who knows about that actual claim on the bottle but five years later they're still shining like new and these weren't expensive headlight assemblies these babies came from taiwan i got them on amazon they were 49 apiece the cheapest ones i could find comparing to the new ones i just put on my wife's lexus these were 249 dollars a piece and i had to replace them because on this i had bought a cheaper replacement one years ago and they faded away like mad they were painted with some kind of special paint and the paint all chipped off and they looked like crap i kept polishing and polishing them finally i gave up about these really expensive ones which i now coat with plexus so i don't have to worry about now that in itself is very good advice if i would have known the idiots in china that sold me the original replacement ones had painted them with a clear lacquer i wouldn't have bought them because that's what happens to clear lacquer on headlights it eventually cracks off so if you watch any of these idiots on youtube they put out videos that say look we get it all polished we sand it down polish it and then we spray paint it with the lacquer paint so it seals it in ah this stuff is gonna crack fall off look like crap after a year or two i even asked my paint and body guy i said man do you clean these up and repaint them he says we never paint them it doesn't last we will just replace them if they want them polished we'll polish them but we'll tell them we polished it well it's an old plastic it was polished it's going to fade even faster now because it's thinner these guys would say oh we'll spray paint them with clear lacquer unless you're selling the car right away don't do it because the ones that i bought that were painted here maybe a year year and a half the paint slacker started to crack hey this is on the top of the car sun hits it all the time the heat of the engine you want to protect them that's why you want to get the plexus once you buy it and protect it sometimes hey you really need to replace things in pairs or sets but sometimes it's complete waste of money not a case of brake pads you do want to replace them in pairs if your right front runs out you want to change the right front and the left front brake pads anyways that's how they sell them you get a set you get four of them two for the right and two for the left and you want to change them in pairs hey my motorcycle only has one wheel on the front so there's only two of them there isn't a set of four and you want to change them in pairs because you want the car to break evenly and you don't want one side to be worn more than the other anyway so if the front ones are gone you replace both front ones and if the back ones are gone you replace both back ones so it breaks evenly you have the same material on each one and it'll be safer realize that brake pads are made of all kinds of different materials you don't want to have one type of material on one side and one on the other now let's say you have a bad brake caliper the assembly that squeezes your brakes in this can be a slightly different story over the years a lot of places say ah you got to replace them in pairs spend all this money because they're a lot more expensive than brake pads it's not going to work right but realize that they won't naturally wear exactly the same take an instance that normally your right front tire hits more potholes in the left because you're sitting closer to the left wheel you see a pothole you're going to miss it but if it's on a right wheel you might not see it and you'll hit it you can damage the right front caliper a lot faster than you can the left so you might have a perfectly good left caliper but the right one's bad so let's say you jack the carpenter you see the right front brake caliper is leaking but the left one's perfectly clean there's nothing wrong with just changing the right front caliper or conversely say the right front caliper when you jack it up you try spinning the wheel and it's just locking up but the left one spins freely you could replace just the right one and then see what happens because if you do that and it breaks perfectly fine huh there's nothing wrong with doing that how brake kelvins work they're pretty simple little rubber seals a cup usually made out of stainless steel sometimes they make them cheaper but they used to make them out of stainless steel and when you step on the brakes the brake pressure pushes that cup which then squeezes the brake pads the only thing that really wears on them is if the seals go bad and they either lock up or the seals go so bad the fluid leaks out and you got to replace them so if you got one that's working perfectly fine on the other side you don't necessarily have to change them in pairs now of course you have to be logical with your decision too let's say you got a really old car you live up north and both of the calipers are rusted like mad you might as well as buy two rebuilt ones and in this case there's nothing wrong with buying rebuilt brake calipers basically all it is is a piston inside a container and when the pressure is pushed inside it when you step on the brakemaster cylinder the fluid pushes that piston to squeeze the calipers they're very simple devices so there's nothing wrong with buying good remanufactured ones they're a relatively simple device it's not like you're rebuilding a computer with all these circuits it's a pretty simple physical thing so getting good rebuild calipers there's no problem with buying them you don't necessarily have to buy new ones which can sometimes cost five to ten times as much as a rebuilt one trots this is a mcpherson strut you need to change them in pairs all four how can you change them now they absorb shocks part of the suspension system for handling and cornering a first smooth ride it's best to replace them in pairs each piston has gone up and down about the same amount of times if one is worn out the next one is probably soon to go out a lot of guys they're not going to use the factory struts because they charge too much money for them so they won't use the dealer struts they'll use aftermarket and there's plenty good aftermarket ones out there generally they're not going to be exactly the same configuration as the original equipment ones so they're not going to ride exactly the same corner exactly the same so in this case you need to change them in pairs the right front ones out best change the right and the left front if the back ones weren't out best to change them in pairs so it corners good doesn't swerve around let's say you're driving an old junker one strut is all worn out and all the hydraulic fluid inside has leaked all over it's covered in oil and that one side bounces like mad but the other side doesn't you can just replace that one side and then drive it around if it rides a whole bunch better and doesn't bounce you're not wasting any money if it still rides bad you can change the other side and a lot of guys with all junkers if one side completely collapse they'll just change the one side and they'll say heck i'll just drive it and see how close and then if they see the other side starts leaking like mad then they'll replace that later headlight bulbs now i changed these in pairs because it's a new led setup watch this with a flip of the switch now you have great warning lights and of course if you want headlights and warning lights i just put on high beams and you'll have all kinds of warning systems going on now of course if you're in a pinch at night when your headlight burns out quick go to a store buy another bulb and put it in ah there's nothing wrong with doing that but here's something i've seen over the years that sometimes surprises people but change the headlight bulb on one side and then a month or two later the other side burned out is there something wrong with my car that's burning these bulbs out all the time if you change one headlight bulb and it's new and the old one isn't a little bit extra power that a new one takes constrain the old one and it will quickly burn out so if you're the type of person that doesn't want to have your car messed with all the time if one headlight burns out change both bulbs that makes the most sense it's best to have both bulbs using the same amount of electricity set up exactly the same with the same brand bulb so they work together correctly rather than having an old one of one type a new one of another type you want to get two new ones that are exactly the same and install them at the same time then you won't have to think about it most cars it's very easy to change the bulbs a lot of auto parts stores that sell them they'll install them free on most cars your best to do that because if you put in one and the other one burns out and you think something's wrong with your car and you go to a mechanic who's not totally honest he's going to say oh i can tell him he's got an electrical short and then charge a bunch of money and just change the two bulbs and charge him labor for hours of stuff that i didn't even do i have seen that happen to a lot of people so if it's something simple a headlight bulb that you can easily do yourself change them in pairs now if you own one of those fancy european cars that has those high intensity some of the bulbs are like 160 bucks up per bulb you really have to change those in pairs the way they run if you change one burn one out i guarantee you in a few weeks or months the other side's going to burn out you might as well just change them both at once even though those are super expensive you can go to any auto parts store and get a halogen bulb that's stocking a lot of cars for like 10 bucks they don't cost anything the hid bulbs you really got to change those in pairs and let's face it if you bought a european car to save money you bought the wrong car in the first place fuel injectors crucial to the heart of your engine this one has four fuel injectors they spray just the right amount of gas in the engine controlled by a computer now of course as they wear their flow properties start to change but generally they wear pretty evenly all four at the same time these babies have 239 000 miles on them they're all original shows your toyota make some good stuff but if a fuel injector ever went bad on this thing if i wanted it to run correctly i would replace all four injectors because you can't have one brand new injector that has the perfect spray and three worn ones it will not work correctly and on really modern cars you gotta buy the right injectors of course but you even have to run a computer program to make the injectors work with the computer system and all the sensors on the car it has to be run over with a computer to set them all up you can't just pop the old ones out and pop new ones in and drive away it will not run correctly but if you got one of those real high end cars a v12 audi i watched the guy replace the injector once it was like a 20-something hour job it was insanity the way you worked on the car and the stuff cost so much money guys will replace one or two if they're bad and then they can use the computer to reprogram the whole system so that at least it'll run correctly it'll be able to calibrate that injector to work the same as the other injectors that's the advantage of buying a good car like a toyota rarely do the injectors break and if you've got a four cylinder one it's only got four injectors so what the heck replace them all in one fell swoop and if you don't want to buy the expense of brand new injectors what you want is to buy a set of calibrated injectors so you make sure that the rebuilt injectors have been calibrated there are places that rebuild them and do a decent job but you gotta buy a recalibrated set or if you're a really old car like this heck you can go to a junk yard and buy four of them off the same engine they'd all be pretty much the same you know you could buy four of them off the engine i mean this has got 239 on it and they're still working so you could try used ones if you're in a gambling mood just get them off the same engine spark plugs inside here just like the fuel injectors you really want to change all of them at the same time you got four cylinder you change all four matching set so everything works perfectly because i've had customers in the past they'll have a code like misfire cylinder number three they'll just change the number three spark plug and then later they come back and say well now it's misfiring on cylinder number two you change all of them at once because if you change one and it's brand new of course it's gonna work the best then the other ones might not work quite as well and they'll start misfiring on the other cylinder spark plugs don't cost that much money replace them in sets fan belts or to be politically correct today drive belt if you got more than one this one has one two three fan belts on it and they have a lot of mileage on them or they're a lot old and cracked change the whole side of them it only makes sense if they're all old and worn out i don't even go at any time so just change them all at one time then you don't have to think about it for years many modern cars only have one gigantic serpentine belt so can only change them all at once because there's only one and in that respect since you only have one fan belt that runs absolutely everything and the cars are virtually undrivable if that belt breaks look at it every once in a while you see a bunch of cracks on it change it now and they don't have to think about it for years and years and years or if it starts squealing first thing in the morning realize that most modern cars not only have one fan belt but they have an automatic tensioner you never have to adjust that they adjust themselves so if you have one of those cars and it squeals first thing in the morning generally means you need a new belt replace the belt because you don't want it breaking while you're driving on the road somewhere and if they are squealing it means they're worn these modern belts are different than the old ones the modern belts have all those grooves and as strange as it sounds as they wear the grooves actually get deeper then they don't ride on the spools very well like your alternator's got a bunch of grooves in it and the belt fits in there and as it wears the holes in the belt get deeper and then it doesn't sit right it doesn't sit perfectly it sits only on the edge of the belt and that's why the belt makes noise and that's why you'd want to change the belt when it's making noise it's telling you it's worn it's actually giving you a warning ahead of time now my rav4 customer has a problem it's an older car it's 10 years old has 180 something thousand miles on it so it's got wear and the problem that they're complaining about is at higher speeds when they break they feel like the car is losing control so if you have a problem we feel you're losing control when you're braking first of course check the brake system you got to start logically the brake fluid is full and when i look under the vehicle and check all the wheels the front and walk around and check the back ones inside and out i don't see any leaks well i figured it probably isn't leaking because the brake fluid is full but you never know could be starting to leak but they're bone dry so they're not leaking and i'll pull off the right front wheel to see what the brake pads look like buff the up cap yeah this thing still has a hubcap dinosaur technology here off it goes double check the brake pads we can see in here there's still plenty of thick they're really thick there's plenty of brake pads nothing's particularly worn this is just surface rust steel's always going to rust so there's really nothing wrong with the braking system there's no leaking fluid or anything anywhere and when i pull on the whole assembly it doesn't wobble back and forth so the tie rods good and up and down it doesn't wobble so the ball joints good now this is an old car it's got the original struts on it this is just a dust cover it's ripped but the strut itself it's dry it's not leaking now here's where most dishonest mechanics are going to take you for a ride they'll say oh you got 180 000 miles your struts are worn out now i'm sure they're worn it's got 180 000 miles on them but i took it for a spin it rode good when you hit bumps it didn't particularly bounce around too much the only problem it really has is at higher speeds when you brake doesn't feel right it doesn't feel stable now of course with the jack up in here we'll pull on this side too but it doesn't have any play either really and again the strut as you can see in here the rubber dust cover's ripped again but the strut itself it's dry it's not leaking but as i said a lot of mechanics they see cars 10 years old 180 000 miles they're gonna sell a set of very expensive struts to the customers saying oh that's why the structure went out but in this case that is not what's happening now sometimes if the back struts are worn that'll make it handle weird when you brake at high speeds but hey we push on it doesn't particularly bounce it doesn't have bad rebound on either side when you push it see it's still pretty stiff for a car that's got 180 something thousand miles on it when you start it up and look doesn't have any particular warning lights on the only warning light was the airbag which was checking itself and turned off so there's no kind of warning with the brake system well then what could be possibly wrong at this thing feels like it's kind of losing a bit of control when you brake at high speeds well understand this when you brake your car where is the braking occurring the brakes squeeze the rotors but what's actually stopping the car if you guess tires you're right tire treads hitting the ground that's what's stopping your car and if you have any type of problem especially with the front tires being worn maybe being out around when you brake at higher speeds you're gonna feel that now of course check the tire pressure on all four tires something as dumb as differential tire pressure can cause all kinds of squirrely stuff when you brake hard but in this case all four tires we're pretty close to 32 and a half psi so it's not the tire pressure in this case so let's check the tires take a close look well when we look at the back ones we see these are really pretty new tires see they still got these little nubs and the molds they've got a lot of tread and they're an excellent shape in the back on the left and again on the right rear see you can see the little molding nubs they're still sticking out but let's go to the front here's the right front there you can see half of those knobs are worn off and even though it's got tread they're not in as good shape as the back ones were and we go to the driver's front tire we see the same thing you can see here there's one little nub here but the other ones have broken off this tire has more wear than the back ones do which isn't surprised on any modern car most cars are front wheel drive the front tires drive the car they wear out more because they're pulling stuff they also do over 90 of the braking and when you corner they're leading into the corner so if you got tires that are weaker in the front a lot of times you're gonna feel that when you do harder braking now i've had this personal argument for years with the supposed tire experts and they say in modern cars put the best tires on the back well that's a load of baloney now of course you want four good tires that's common sense you don't want to be driving on bad tires but when you look at this car as i took the right front tire off to check the brakes you can see it's still got tons of tried it's knowledge of horrible tires but the back ones are indeed newer and in better shape so there's nothing wrong in putting these still decent tires in the front on the back and putting the ones that look brand new from the back to the front because let's face it you break more on the front tires the front tires wear out faster than the back tires they also have to have the best traction for taking off without the tire slipping i had an argument years ago with my matrix there it would slip when you took off fast especially if it was a little bit wet outside and it had really old tires that were seven years old on but i thought well i'll change just the front ones so they'll have better grip and they won't slip and they'll ride better right so i go to the tire place and say i want two new tires on this in the front and following the stupidity of many companies these days they didn't listen to where i said and they sold me two new tires but they put them on the back i got in a car i said i want them in the front i don't want them in the back and they said no we put the good tires on the back and the other one's on the front that's our policy i said well your policy is nonsense brought at home now i don't have a tire machine so i can't take tires off rims and change them i just took the new tires they put on the back put them in the front and put the old front ones in the back now yeah maybe i should have bought all four new tires but the other tire still had about eighty percent of their tread left on it because we don't drive that much two three thousand miles a year so they had plenty of tread left but i didn't let them slip so with these brand new tires on the front of the matrix guess what it didn't slip anymore when i accelerated hard whether it was rain whether it was uneven pavement it stopped the slipping by putting the good tires on the front and not the back and then the case of this rav4 i mean these old front tires they still do have a ton of tread on it just like my matrix did so i'm going to put the front ones in the back and the back ones in the front so put the front down on a jack stand jack the back up in the air and take off the tire now we'll fluff the hubcap again and swap the tires roll it out of the way and get the new tire these electric impact wrenches are good for taking tires on and off they don't get them too tight and here comes a wayward tire i will jack it back up in the front and do the other side tuck the up camp off then we jack up the other side in the back and we'll swap these tires and here comes the one that used to be in the front now it's going in the back yes these are different hubcaps these are the original ones of the toyota handling lineup the other ones are aftermarket but you can only see one side a car at a time so who cares then the tire was on the rears going on the front now we reach under and get the jack stand out then let it down and take it for a ride away we go and now when we break at higher speeds guess what it just stops nice and straight the only problem here is the noise you hear because i stopped so fast and activated the anti-lock brakes because it's cold and slippery this morning that has nothing to do with the problem that's just the abs kicking in if i stop a little slower here you'll see you don't hear any of the noises that was just the abs activating you get an old car like this yeah they're gonna make noise even my wife's lexus if you slam on it real hard the abs will make weird noises as it's activating so now you've seen how sometimes something as simple as moving your tars from the front to the back and the back to the front can solve a problem that you've had so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music]

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 30min 49sec (1849 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 06 2021