rev up your engines, ato
says what do you think about honda dealer using a flushing machine instead
of draining refill for the automatic transmission, no never use a flush machine,
i have seen too many people use flush machines and it ruined the automatic
transmission, drain and refills is the only thing you should do with a honda, because
when you flush your using pressure and
sometimes little pieces of crud will get jammed into a hole, and a transmission
that had no problems in the first place ended up having a whole bunch of
problems later on, so never use a flush machine, the only time i say to people,
well give it as a last resort if they got a transmission that doesn't even
move, what the heck have a guy hook up a flush machine and try to flush it to see
if at least it'll start ruining, but if it works decent now, do not have it
flushed ernesto says how do you know if a fuel pump
is going out in your car, fuel pumps pump the
fuel to the engine, modern cars are all fuel injected and the pressure has to be
within very certain parameters, like if it's 40 to 42 psi it's got to be that if
you've got a gasoline direct injection, the main pump can put out a thousand psi
when your fuel pump is going out, it doesn't pump enough pressure most of the
time, it won't accelerate or it will only go to 50 60 miles an hours and not any faster
or you'll get a check engine light, and it'll be engine running to lean, cause if the
pump isn't pumping enough fuel, it'll run lean it has enough air but not enough fuel
it's a good way of telling and you can also use your ears, because modern fuel pumps
they're almost all in the gas tank they're silent you hear nothing, and if all
of a sudden you start hearing mmm, and you take the gas cap off put your ear
there and you hear mmm, that means the fuel pump is starting to go out, change it soon
before it strands you in the middle of nowhere, Elvis Presley, I guess he's back
from the dead, my relative has an 08
Dodge Caliber andlow mileage 25,000 miles had it since new and wants to change the
antifreeze due to age with the low mileage should we consider a water pump also,
ah not really 25,000 miles is nothing, antifreeze it
basically breaks down through use it gets hot and it gets cold, you're running
it through the engine, since it's only got 25,000
miles on it, it isn't gonna be that badly worn and the pump has only spun a little
bit, I wouldn't mess with the water pump I would just change the coolant, I would
flush it out and put new coolant in it modern coolants are so well made, I would
say go out get one of those long life coolants, some of them go for seven years
150,000 miles and do that, I wouldn't spend the money on a water pump because
it shouldn't have any problems, the driving and the mileage that wears on
water pump, it hasn't spun that much it's only gone for 25,000 miles, BC says
Scotty how do you clean and maintain a good safety belt, it's got a little latch
in them, but a lot of them are electronic and they have a switch inside to tell
the computer that you have your seat belt latched or not, so the best way of that is
just using the modern wd-40, wd-40 lubricates, but it also does not harm
electrical parts, you could spray some on and then you wipe the excess off, and you
won't have any problems with them sticking and you won't ruin the
electrical portion, because say if you just use spray oil, well hey that's gonna
ruin the electronics, but the wd-40 is electronic safe, so you know that's a
good way and it actually shines quite well, I know guys that if they're kind of
sleazy and their selling a used car they actually get wd-40 and they put it
all over the paint and it makes it look shiny for a few days, it's a dirty trick
that people have done, I know people who bought cars like that and then later they looked
horrible, it's actually good for making things look shiny too, so try some of
that, harsher says Scotty I went to start my car this morning the fuel
gauge was below the f, it came back two minutes later and it went above the F line,
what can be that is it low battery voltage or something, if your talking about
a little bit below the F and then a little
bit above the F, as cars age things aren't as accurate as they once were, but
if you're curious about your electrical system, any place most auto parts stores
do it free, you can have your battery load tested, and your alternator load
tested for free to see if you've got a problem with that, because it could be
the beginning of a problem that you want to catch now in the beginning before it
has any problems, if they say all that stuff is okay, that just generally means
that the sending unit your gas tank is getting a little bit old, you got to
realize your gas tank has a float in it, it floats up and down on an arm and then
that goes to a variable resistor to tell how much fuel is in it
well that thing is soaked in gasoline, imagine if you were an electrical part
and you were soaked in gasoline, over time that stuff just wears and when it
wears, hey it doesn't work as good as it did, and
as long as it reads normal most of the time as you drive it slowly it goes down,
when you fill it up it goes back up, I'd live with that rather than tear it all
apart and put another sending unit in it, because that is a pretty expensive
thing to do, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos,
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