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Eric, I was renovicted, and it ended up being one of the best things that ever happened to me. Got lucky for sure, but now I am so much better off. Same with changing jobs. You sometimes get stuck in where you are at and you don’t even know it.
But heres a question, you are a youtube superstar! why not buy your own building out in the sticks? Land prices in america are amazing in many places, like i bet you could buy land for 200k!. Not like canada where everything is a million dollars…
you have 1.6M subscribers.. if everyone who was american within driving distance, donated 20 minutes of time, just think of the barn you could raise! i bet even a thousand people could build you a new shop in a day after a foundation was poured. You might even have some crazy architect fan who would design the literal best building, customized. Leverage your internet powers!
I have no doubt you will be better off in the end.
good luck
clicking on my name in this post yields 3 dots only. Is something broken with your forums? cant upload images so look here for what i mean.
For sure man, no disrespect. You helped me many times. Regarding ads, the way they are configured is less standard than using an ad network, which i can see you use as well. Self hosted ads works, i saw em which doesn’t normally happen 🙂 Made me notice enough to make a comment, while i mainly wanted to ask your web developer about what was up with search. Did you ever think of using patreon or something like that? maybe you do…
Regarding search, i think your CMS is wordpress yes? I would think that there are endless plugins to search that. But yeah some are pay no doubt, and need to test to find the right one. Not a web developer so couldn’t recommend a good one without doing the research, i just run the infrastructure. Would probably start with the most popular and work from there.
I am going to resub to premium now as a thanks, because i let it lapse. The work you do is awesome, you are so popular now, more than ever before. Always impressed when you come up in conversation with random shadetree “mechanics” like me :).
was the belt. Even though it only had 30k on it. The noise has not returned 1 month later.
Could have been the first time i installed it i didn’t get the tension right. Infact i know i didnt, because i didnt have a tension gauge (Cricket) at the time and so just did it randomly. So this i suppose led to premature belt wear and the noise. A simple $5 belt later and my wife is happy. Didn’t even bother buying the top of the line gates one this time 🙂 I believe the new one was acdelco.well erics video covered everything i already knew really. I found this video below to be a bit more informative than erics and its what i was basing my diag on.
however i think at this point i will try changing the belt and report back. Hopefully I have some time this weekend and the weather is ok enough.
Oil rings, hmm never heard of that. Thought you meant piston rings before i looked it up. They are a component of the piston rings i guess.
Does this cause the oil in the cylinder, or the high compression, or both? I guess i am still hoping to find oil above the sparkplug as the source of the leak next time i open it up (maybe this weekend) as then its just a gasket or some kind of problem with the valve cover being warped. rather than piston / oil rings.
its been running like this since i purchased it 65,000 km ago… takes a top up of about 1L of oil every 2 months (aprox 1500kms), which while somewhat annoying to keep on top of, could be much worse.
EDIT: looked up that engine restore stuff, they have it at canadian tire. I am super weary about adding things to the motor but it has good reviews. I thought my compression on the wet test was way too high (The book says reference compression should be 178). Doesnt this increase compression? i could see it being useful on cyl 4 in that case but cyl 2 is actually above the spec as with the others sitting at ~180. Will this make it go so high that the engine will blow?
Just use thte 3m kit. I used it recently and the difference is night and day. well worth the $35.
I did find i had to redo it after 4 years and probably 60k, but i have read that this is because i do not wax the headlights. 3m recommends waxing the lights every 3 months.
its easy and very very much worth the $40. eric has a good video about using the 3m kits but search isnt really working for me on the forums right now. This was prior to waxing (Below) and they look even more clear now. passenger side is not done yet for comparison.
The answer to his question (how much should a cheap reliable car cost) is as cheap as possible. $500 is the exact price i usually pay.
The less money you spend up front, the more you can put into repairs.
However i do live in a place that a ’99 would not look like that pile of rust and cracked rubber.for kids, you want the beaterest of beaters, so they can learn how to fix things and it doesnt matter when the wreck it up.
this car though, has so many problems damn… of course a honda expert like eric who knows literally everything that can go wrong, probably looks at things with quite a different eye than someone driving a beater into the ground.
tires and batteries are important though to buy new. The wrecker is a great source of cheap parts. Dont always have to buy new.
Honestly I think you are being paranoid.
The first time, you straight up were driving illegal (in canada anyway) for an obscured plate. So 100% justified.
Second time, was another plate issue. I can see american cops using any little thing to pull you over, like a broken tail light. I heard about that thing called civil forfeiture you have down there so i think they are just fishing for gold, you know…. still i drive a few kms under the speed limit if i know cops are there personally! Went to court once and admitted driving 5kmh over and had to pay the ticket because “technically you admitted you were over the speed limit”. i should make a bumper sticker that says “i brake for speed traps”, because i always do -even when not speeding! just a reflex now.Ah man! thats lucky!
Reminds me of the time when i was younger that i used the trunk release wire in my car to wire my amp and sub in the trunk. I find trunk releases from the cabin to be insecure anyways so i thought.. why not!
So what happened? i was driving along, rocking that bass, and suddenly the cabin starts to fill with smoke and my girlfriend at the time starts screaming! we pull over and both get the F out of that car as fast as possible! i pull out the battery connection (just ripped it right off the terminal i was so amped up!), but by that time the smoke was starting to clear and there was no visible fire.
Problem was that a cheap chinese fuse i bought at the dollar store melted in the fuseblock and the metal parts of the fuse contacted heating up the wire and burning the coating off the wire all the way along.
luckily, that was unbelievably the only wire in the harness that was damaged! i removed teh melted mess of a fuse and started the car up and drove it home.
Then i ran 10 gauge to the trunk a few weeks later and it was all good after that.
I was cleaning burned wire goo from various spots on the chassis and under the dash for years afterwards, but it could have been FAR worse!
I always remember that mythbusters episode where they try and try again to light liquid fuel on fire and simply cant do it. their conclusion was it has to be vapourized to ignite by heat, or static, or shot from a gun (kinetic), or whatever. But i guess spraying a bunch of fuel all over the engine compartment with a (backfiring?) carb and literal flames was enough to do it in your case! im sure there was plenty of aresolized vapour in your engine bay at the time as well.
man so lucky… eric does the learning so we don’t have to!
pick n pull?
what about buying a whole car, if you have somewhere to park it. one can get cars for $200 on craigslist.but i think a lot of people start with a motorcycle engine when learning.
for me, i got no space for a project like that!
you could probably do this real cheap, just find an auto wrecker and camp out there for a day or two disassembling an engine or two or three! i often test out repairs on wrecker vehicles, when i have lived close to one that lets you pull your own parts that is…
Man i ran seafoam through the vacuum lines of my old car one time and had to replace almost every vacuum seal that was gasket or rubber. Granted many were probably only being held together by the carbon that got burned off, and it was better in the long run, but still I was finding and fixing vacuum leaks cropping up for months.
So yes, it will reveal problems. Just be prepared to spend the money to, find, diagnose and fix those problems it has now helpfully revealed for you!
Man always get a second opinion. Especially if the bill is more than a few hundred!
A trusted long time mechanic that you can run others quotes by never hurts too.Sucks there is probably little recourse for that person as they agreed to the work. Good thing i’m too poor to pay 3k for anything without a good long think about it.. lol
Hey eric, i found this site a few years ago. It is strangely exciting to see where your car was used in film! (they usually look pretty good)
(The Internet Movies Car Database)
a quick check yields 24 pages of fairmonts!