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Great video! I did the modification you’re talking about. I don’t know if you read it but I mentioned installing a new AC system in my sister’s 2005 CRV based on one of your vids and I had to take the evaporator out and also change the cabin filter after I removed the blower. I had to cut that piece of plastic you were talking about and remove that metal bar except I had a couple of wire harnesses attached to the back side of the metal bar that needed to be detached and my filter laid horizontal and it was two small filters side by side and yours is one whole one. But everything else was the same including the glove box.
Thanks
Great video! I did the modification you’re talking about. I don’t know if you read it but I mentioned installing a new AC system in my sister’s 2005 CRV based on one of your vids and I had to take the evaporator out and also change the cabin filter after I removed the blower. I had to cut that piece of plastic you were talking about and remove that metal bar except I had a couple of wire harnesses attached to the back side of the metal bar that needed to be detached and my filter laid horizontal and it was two small filters side by side and yours is one whole one. But everything else was the same including the glove box.
Thanks
Hey Eric, just watched the RE: to this video and it was brilliant. The baby seal crack with the straight face was hilarious. Love the way you set people straight who obviously haven’t paid attention to the install like the whole deal with the reflection and projection beam deal. I’ve seen many auto instruction vids and I really have a hard time finding any as good as yours. You do a great job of explaining thoroughly as well as in a timely manner. Very easy to understand your instruction. I have learned a lot from you and have fixed cars based on your instruction. I recently put in a whole AC system in my sister’s car totally based on your AC manifold gauge video when u charged your system as well as your approach to dissembling parts of a car. Went off without a hitch. Thanks!
Hey Eric, just watched the RE: to this video and it was brilliant. The baby seal crack with the straight face was hilarious. Love the way you set people straight who obviously haven’t paid attention to the install like the whole deal with the reflection and projection beam deal. I’ve seen many auto instruction vids and I really have a hard time finding any as good as yours. You do a great job of explaining thoroughly as well as in a timely manner. Very easy to understand your instruction. I have learned a lot from you and have fixed cars based on your instruction. I recently put in a whole AC system in my sister’s car totally based on your AC manifold gauge video when u charged your system as well as your approach to dissembling parts of a car. Went off without a hitch. Thanks!
[quote=”EricTheCarGuy” post=49509]First, I don’t think replacing all the fluid in an automatic transmission is necessary if you regularly service it. There seems to be an obsession with some people about doing this very thing however. I personally don’t share this obsession. That is the first obstacle to making the video you request.
The second is that I don’t have or have access to a transmission flushing machine. This pretty much kills the deal right here.
That said, I just shot a video on automatic transmission dissection that you may find interesting. I’m hoping to post the first of that series on Feb 18, 2013.
Thank you for your request.[/quote]
Hi, Recently I watch the ETCG1 video of the 2013 Q&A which cleared up a lot for me. I was under the impression that you mainly operated as a shop and took in work and then made videos based on what came in, but as you’ve explained you are a production studio and this is your full time job. It makes perfect sense to me now why it wouldn’t justify the expense to get certain pieces of equipment and tools just to make a video and then not use it anymore (like the Transmission Flush Machine, LOL) aside from the fact that you wouldn’t be interested or feel it necessary in doing such a maintenance even if you had one as you have stated.
Nice studio BTW!!!
[quote=”EricTheCarGuy” post=49509]First, I don’t think replacing all the fluid in an automatic transmission is necessary if you regularly service it. There seems to be an obsession with some people about doing this very thing however. I personally don’t share this obsession. That is the first obstacle to making the video you request.
The second is that I don’t have or have access to a transmission flushing machine. This pretty much kills the deal right here.
That said, I just shot a video on automatic transmission dissection that you may find interesting. I’m hoping to post the first of that series on Feb 18, 2013.
Thank you for your request.[/quote]
Hi, Recently I watch the ETCG1 video of the 2013 Q&A which cleared up a lot for me. I was under the impression that you mainly operated as a shop and took in work and then made videos based on what came in, but as you’ve explained you are a production studio and this is your full time job. It makes perfect sense to me now why it wouldn’t justify the expense to get certain pieces of equipment and tools just to make a video and then not use it anymore (like the Transmission Flush Machine, LOL) aside from the fact that you wouldn’t be interested or feel it necessary in doing such a maintenance even if you had one as you have stated.
Nice studio BTW!!!
K thanks, I wasn’t aware it wasn’t necessary I had a friend told that theirs should be flushed and thought it might be fun to watch, but I’m looking forward to your tranny dissection release on the 18th.
K thanks, I wasn’t aware it wasn’t necessary I had a friend told that theirs should be flushed and thought it might be fun to watch, but I’m looking forward to your tranny dissection release on the 18th.
[quote=”bman9625″ post=48614]
Thanks great site. I get tired of watching shows like West Coast Customs and Boyd Coddington’s Hot Rod where they work on cars that no real person will ever own or drive. I find your video’s a lot more entertaining, kind of like the show, Wheeler Dealers, where they work on regular cars.[/quote]
Yeah me too, and what’s up with Boyd Coddington and working on so many of what seems like the same type car all the time? IDK I’m prolly just missing the shows of the good builds lol.
[quote=”bman9625″ post=48614]
Thanks great site. I get tired of watching shows like West Coast Customs and Boyd Coddington’s Hot Rod where they work on cars that no real person will ever own or drive. I find your video’s a lot more entertaining, kind of like the show, Wheeler Dealers, where they work on regular cars.[/quote]
Yeah me too, and what’s up with Boyd Coddington and working on so many of what seems like the same type car all the time? IDK I’m prolly just missing the shows of the good builds lol.
[quote=”jeffrey” post=46018]Hard to make a call on this one. I’ve heard this topic debated to death. I highly regard Eric’s opinion but I’ve read too many differing ones from engineers with phds after their names. The Mobile 1 website runs through a list of ‘myths’ about synthetic oil…but then again, they’re selling oil. Its a lot like the whether Seafoam really works or not debate.
So I’m just going with my unacredited instincts. Engines can rack up 300k now days when, once upon a time they were ready for a rebuild at 90k. Besides superior engineering and metal alloys I think that has a lot to do with new oils. So I run the synthetics. Also, and it may be psychosomatic, my beaters just feel pluckier when I run them. …that ‘happy car’ feel when you just change your oil.
What would make an interesting video are oil filters and those magnets they put on them. Those are topics that really get people pissy and cutting old frams in half…lol[/quote]
One big reason engines last longer is the removal of lead from gasoline which would gunk it up real fast!
[quote=”jeffrey” post=46018]Hard to make a call on this one. I’ve heard this topic debated to death. I highly regard Eric’s opinion but I’ve read too many differing ones from engineers with phds after their names. The Mobile 1 website runs through a list of ‘myths’ about synthetic oil…but then again, they’re selling oil. Its a lot like the whether Seafoam really works or not debate.
So I’m just going with my unacredited instincts. Engines can rack up 300k now days when, once upon a time they were ready for a rebuild at 90k. Besides superior engineering and metal alloys I think that has a lot to do with new oils. So I run the synthetics. Also, and it may be psychosomatic, my beaters just feel pluckier when I run them. …that ‘happy car’ feel when you just change your oil.
What would make an interesting video are oil filters and those magnets they put on them. Those are topics that really get people pissy and cutting old frams in half…lol[/quote]
One big reason engines last longer is the removal of lead from gasoline which would gunk it up real fast!