Looking Into The Horses Mouth

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It may sound like a cryptic title but it's a very similar concept, if you have a question about a car just look under the oil cap and it will tell you quite a bit about how that engine was taken care of, in this case, not so much.

Stay dirty

ETCG

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• used car
• used car inspection
• engine inspection
• dirty oil
• poor maintenance
• maintenance
• automotive maintenance
• eric the car guy
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[kyle51895]

These are the people who never take any care of their car, then blame the car maker when it breaks. My Dad got a car with 50,000 miles on it once because the engine seized when the lady never changed the oil in it. $500 on a new engine and he got a cheap car with low miles.

[EricTheCarGuy]

@kyle51895 It's funny how many automotive problems are really personal problems. Thanks for the comment.

[TeDuaMalakie]

Do you recommend flushing the engine with flushing liquids ?! i have a can of Motor Flush from cyclo, and i'm thinking to just pour it into. my engine not nearly as dirty as this one in this video though . nice flash light by the way .

[EricTheCarGuy]

@TeDuaMalakie Not really, sometimes that just makes things worse. I would rather maintain something rather than try and fix it after it's been neglected like this one was, it gets to a point where it's just not worth fixing.

[fastvpbt1]

hey eric me again lol can you help me out with this question at me work in the trade if you want to remove all the oil and make it pure clean inside like new can you pour desiel into the oil area about a litre as desiel has oil in it and run the car for a minute then whole engine clean as a whistle heard of that ?lol and then do a full serive like oil filter ,fuel filter and oil change get back cheers and solve this myth??????LOL

[EricTheCarGuy]

@fastvpbt1 I actually used kerosene on an engine once and did pretty much the same thing, it took all the gunk and sent it into the oil pan where it clogged the pick up and almost blew the engine. Moral of the story, if it's too far gone it's too far gone. Never tried it with diesel.

[EricTheCarGuy]

@mrjost55 Some people just don't consider it a priority, they keep the car dealers in business.

[alldayandnight09]

yes NEVER cheap out on tires. always get really good tires. I bought a used car one time after changing the tires i felt like i had a different car.

[vinceperez158]

Can u clean all that gunk out?

[christo930]

Another problem with buying a car with new cheap tires is that they are probably trying to hide front end problems.

[EricTheCarGuy]

@Danlovesmakinvids Yea but I wouldn't eat it.

[Danlovesmakinvids]

its like starring into an enfine full of pudding

[EricTheCarGuy]

@TheFranchyd To be honest I've never done that and don't know why you would.

[TheFranchyd]

Dear Eric the car guy i know this is of the subject but i have a 1991 chevy s10 and i dont konw how to connect the ignision wire to the radio can you show me?

[EricTheCarGuy]

@ProjectCarTV I like ATF as well, it's surprising how well it works. I'm with you on leaving it alone if there isn't a problem.

[ProjectCarTV]

@EricTheCarGuy I've had a similar experience with kerosene, not so much seafoam but I have never used sea foam in the crankcase - always the intake side of things. If I want to flush a high mileage engine, I use ATF if anything. Most of the time, if it's working, has good compression and smog numbers, leave it alone. LOL

[EricTheCarGuy]

@chillincruisin I've had a couple of people ask the same thing. I haven't used seafoam for a situation like this and hope to find an engine that I can experiment with for a video just to do some real world testing. I will say that once I used kerosene to clean an engine like this, it worked so well that all the gunk went into the oil pan and clogged the oil pick up and I almost blew the engine. Cleaning an engine that's this far gone might not be a good idea.

[chillincruisin]

since we're on the topic of clean engines, whats your opinion on seafoam? use it?  dont use it?

[qaz3000]

@EricTheCarGuy As you said when you opened you Odyssey transmision : its already broken... i can only break it more hehe . Gonna continu my project on spare time and hope for the best ! thank you Eric !

[EricTheCarGuy]

@qaz3000 I couldn't say for sure but I have a friend of mine that has built more than one of those (see Pole Crawlin on my ETCG1 channel), he swears by them and has had a lot of success with them. If there is no physical damage to the engine block or head then you should be able to recondition it if that is your intent.

[qaz3000]

Dear Eric , I just got for free a blown suzuki sidekick after i spent 3 days stripping it down ( felt really confident about it thanks to ETCG ^^ ) i finally reached the cylinders and to my big surprise the heag gasket was in a more than decent condition !! Im quite surprise since the sidekick only has 144 000 km and this is the second engine after looking under the car it seems that the engine catched fire when it blew up !! its a 1995 2 door 4x4 automatic. Whats your opinion on the situation??

[EricTheCarGuy]

@shaneunderwood Be careful. I've actually tried to clean the inside of an engine like this once and as a result it knocked all that stuff loose into the oil pan where it clogged the oil pickup and almost blew the engine up. If an engine is filled with sludge you are really wasting your time trying to clean it as the damage is already done at that point, I would recommend ignoring it and driving it till it dies or replacing the engine instead of wasting time and money on cleaning it.

[shaneunderwood]

What are your thoughts on motor flush solvents?