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17 ILLEGAL Tricks to Make Your CAR Run BETTER!
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- Published on Mar 16, 2026
- 17 ILLEGAL Tricks to Make Your CAR Run BETTER!
Discover 17 illegal modifications that actually boost performance, plus the risky upgrades mechanics won't tell you about. Learn what works and what destroys engines.
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As a mechanic for 47 years I didn't see anything on this video that was illegal ! Most are common sense repairs any decent mechanic knows already.
That tells me what I need to know. I like videos that tell the truth. Apparently, this one doesn't.
@joespinachyou know, it has some hot words but still it has wise advices. As a passionate I didn't knew about half of them XD.
I agree, 100% nothing was illegal. Probably actually improved the emissions
Thanks for clarifying, I was having trouble believing it was illegal,
that said are these tricks helpful?
no shit. Its just a play on words making it seem special.
So my car is learning my driving habits , That explains the burnouts leaving work each day
It is true. Start being gentle on the throttle for a week. After a solid week has passed take it out on open road then floor it. The response of the car will be slower than if you drive it hard for a week flooring it everywhere you go.
Drive it like a rented mule, HARD! But do all maintenance faithfully.
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@ericb.4358 I let the car idle for 30 sec and then drive sedately till it was come to temperature. Approx 3 kms ( 1.86 miles ).
I’m just here for the comments🤣🤣
lmao 🤣
I held my gas pedal down for ten seconds and immediately was surrounded by swat team.
I would be worried about "ICE" sending me to El Salvador....
Yep, he warned you: IT IS ILLEGAL in RL, but not on his channel.
@TheOzthewiz 🤣
Dumb thing to say, bro. You may be a mechanic, but most people are not.
@TheOzthewiz Whats wrong with El Salvador.
90% of the weekend warrior’s doing these tricks will be at the local mechanic shop the following week.🤣
Saying "I don't know how all that water got in there!"
I had a old car, i cut the cat off, it ran better, more power and better on gas.
Im waiting on the illegal stuff... Is there a part 2?
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6.30 on clip
Any of these many hacks are ilegal if done with a corpse in the trunk.
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If the engine is hydro locked all you have to do is remove all spark plugs and crank the engil untill it stops spitting liquids out of spark plug holes. Put plugs back in and start it and drive it.
As soon as it said "you're already better than 90% of drivers"....ahhh shit it's ChatGPT
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This is all exactly why I taught myself to work on my own car. In my younger days, we rebuilt engines in our gravel driveway. You learn very fast to drop nothing when you work on gravel.
Get a magnet or even concrete floor , you can still loss things but I'm old!
What a PITA it is to jack up a car on gravel... and dangerous if you're not paying extreme attention.
I learned to ride a bike on a downhill gravel driveway on a ten speed at 6. You instantly learn how to jump off instead of wreck. It come I handy still. Gravel is no joke
So would u recommend any off these methods. I was wondering about the one where he was spraying the motor down with water and in the intake to clear out the carbon build up in the motor. Is that safe
I would seriously think about putting lacquer thinner in with gasoline as the lacquer thinner made destroy the rubber seals and it could virtually destroy some of the engine components, I would think twice
I mistakenly (long story) put a gallon of lacquer thinner in my motorcycle. I figure I’d destroyed it. Funny thing it ran no different. Did not harm anything. I would not advise using lacquer thinner in a gasoline engine.
I've used it several times.
@ibbermanyou can make cat cleaner with iso heat, acetone, xylene, and white gas. 😊
@clellanhensley5620 I have used lacquer thinner for years and have 235,00 k clicks with the same cat. Keeps it clean. 1 GALLON TO A TANK FULL.😃
Nope, this how we used to make race gas before race gas became available to the public, acetone has a octane of 150.
So funny, he said drill a few SMALL holes on the cold side of the airbox while video shows using a 2.5 inch hole saw blade.
What if you have a push button start then how do you reset the ecm
scanner
"This is a fine mist you've got us into."
Car holes in the air box means also more dust not only oxygen...🙂
You drill the holes in the housing before the filter, so the additional air still goes thru the filter. Put the holes in the housing after the filter, will suck in dirt and debris
Make sure y’all listen to this video.
I’ll see you at my shop in no time 🤣
Sure you have "20 Years" of Dealership "experience"... And my Aunt was the ORIGINAL Model for the Mona Lisa!!!
11:24, the man is holding an old-school fuel pump.... I bet that's "illegal" too.
Every NGK sparkplug I tested on my old Honda was perfect out of the box. I might have just been lucky, but I still always checked...
Always ohm test spark plugs if you get a deal that seems hard to believe.
Never reset the gap on iridium tip plugs because it destroys the tip.
I have always confirmed the gap spec when pulling plugs out of a brand new box. Correct every time. I'm not a mechanic, just prudent.
@chucknVathanks for the info
@chucknVai IDK if I can run them 100k miles and still have the same gap I don't think you can destroy Iridium! Harder than a ten dollar cold chisel!
Putting a gasoline filter between the tank and engine takes care of a in tank clogged filter? 😂😂😂.
I was wondering if I missed something. A filter down stream of a clogged filter would reduce the flow more because the psi drop across the filters add up. I think the trick is to remove the internal filter and install one that is easy to get to between the fuel tank and fuel rails. I don't think the creator of this video has a strong understanding of what he is talking about.
@jmezzofante9337 I think the creator of this video probably wasn’t a human being.
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@FiftyPlusVitality I agree with all the above comments. The narrator, human or not, clearly omitted removing the in-pump filter. The whole mod makes no sense at all if leaving that filter in place.
I thought there was going to be a cat delete for straight pipe and down stream o2 spacer... but I guess that was too illegal...
Me too. Oh well i just cut cat off and electric tape over check engine light.
Don't trust everything on the internet...
Closing the spark plug gap 0.02” will nearly close it. Total bs. Maybe the poster meant 0.002”
OK. I'm gonna try this tomorrow (throttle reset). Very old van, can't get over 35 mph lately. If doesn't work, may try the disconnect the battery method to reset the computer. Too bad we're stuck with comouters controlling our cars. 😠
Remove both cables from battery. Then connect a cable to both. This drains all the power. Just removing from battery does nothing. The computer still has power. My car was running bad after 02 sensor replaced. I removed wires for 15 min then replaced. Still the same. A mechanic said touch both together with a jumper wire. Presto ran like new
@ShawnKelly-h4c3s Thank you, Shawn!
Please dont do the intake cleaning like in the video.... Where do you think all the debri is going to go. Remove it and clean everything by hand...
Yes, do not for the love of God do not put seafoam or anything into it. Do your own research and you will come to the conclusion I came to. Will it break up those deposits on the inlet valves? Yes. Will you see a crap ton of smoke come out of your exhaust yes. What is in between those valves and the outlet where the exhaust comes out? You will clog up your catalytic converter. You will clog up or destroy all the spark plugs, fuel injectors, O2 sensors, think about it it’s not like brushing your teeth and spitting it out. It’s traveling down through each cylinder, which is firing and then eventually out the exhaust manifold and all that smoke and carbon and gunk that just got re-burned up is going to deposit itself between their and out the tailpipe. There is a lot of things that you will SCREW up so eight dollars yes. 5 TO 8000 TO FIX YES.
Thank you brother. Sound like a liver detox idea if you don't to do it under medical supervision you will clog the whole system and the whole body could become toxified.
I have a 92 Land cruiser and a 1990 Toyota pickup they don't have that crap and that's why I keep them
3 partial transmission changes for 100? You're hired
The author doesn't understand diminished returns. Changing a third 3 times doesn't equal 100%. The new and old fluid mix. So on average, three 1/3 changes will still leave 29% of the original fluid in the system. Doing a flush is still good for the transmission.
@jmezzofante9337 true and not true. If you do a full flush about half the life of what dealers recommend then yes I agree do a full flush but let it go close to a 100thousand and I guarantee that you're probably going to loose that transmission the same as never doing it at all. Same goes for differential. I have had 3 cars with over 100thou. 2 I lost to differential changes and 1 to transmission. I learned the hard way that it needs to be done at half life or never fully drain a system with alot of miles.
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The video showed a transmission fluid plug on the pan, which makes it so much easier. It's worth it to install a drain plug if your pan doesn't have one... which has been every car I've ever owned. JEGS has an adapter, but finding a good place to install it might still be an issue. What a messy job.
Right! My trans fluid is over $15 per quart.
FOLLOW SOME OF THESE AND YALL WILL PUT MY GRANDCHILREN THROUGH COLLEGE.
By shortening the spark gap 0.02 inches is 20 thousandths of an inch. It should be 0.002 thousandths. 0.02 would close th gap to less than half of the normal 0.035 gap.
.020" is too much and .002" won't make a difference
@davec1914so which gap would be the best ?
@cameroncash9147 probably the engines recommended spark plug gap +/- .005"
my work truck as of right now has 492,000 miles on it runs like a champ and ive never had anything major go bad but i do use good oil and change it on a regular basis and i drive the shit outta it tow insane amounts of weight and probably should have way more tickets so its not like it gets. baby'd at all but like i said i dont use the cheap oil cause i think you get what you pay for
My work truck has 1.4 million miles plus idles 10 hrs per day 7 days per week.
What about car the start with a push button
I just performed the computer reset trick, #17(?), exactly as recommended here, push button needs one single push
to turn on auxiliary power without touching anything else. Then press gas pedal for 10-15 seconds and release, wait 10-15 seconds more and start normally.
My 2023 Tacoma's engine now idles smoother than silk, is more responsive and for the few miles I drove it since, did not force untimely up-shifting, as it would do with factory settings.
I am pleased.
...and for the record, I have several of the other tricks on older vehicles, including using AMS OIL in my '97 Avalon that ran so quietly a friend only picked up on the engine running after sitting on the fender for 5 minutes. Of course, the engine in that Avalon was mounted on liquid filled blocks that helped the already negligible vibes dissapear.
Cut holes in your airbox so the mice can move in easier.
Every single added mouse power is noticeable !
And confuse the heck out of your maff sensor so it runs like crap omg
Put a screen🤦
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1/4 plaster bucket bleach water it down a lil if want warm water mixes better to reduce it as plenty potent even watered down and hang jerky over it so they fall in getting to it. put one in corner of garage never have mice rats again chewing on your vehicles a large rat baseball size will die under 5 mins inhaling the bleach best part its a trap that catches 20-30 before resetting it and the bleach stops there dead smell leaching. cheers i hope this keeps you're vehicles rodent free !!!
I cleaned my maf sensor and was arrested at the emissions test site and charged with "stealing miles per gallon"....judge ordered me to refrain from using any lucas oil products.
a lot of these were for cars with carburetors, have not seen one in quite a while
20:55 just cut the cat off
How is any of this illigal? I figured i would learn something but just dumb
THIS SHOULD BE CALLED 17 LIES THAT MADE YOU WATCH THIS VIDEO !!!
Number 17 works for sure. Already did it. I am guessing you work for a car dealership.
Literally no customer texted you and said “it feels 20% faster” lmfao
The fuel filter bypass is bogus. The filter in the tank is not bypassed. The problem of the clogged OE filter remains.
My thought exactly, the fix would require removing the plugged tank filter and then installing the external filter.
I am surprised you got your message posted after you used the Bo**s word, co many of the A! moderators black hole those comments.
Anyone who follows that advice without either knowing, or researching further, deserves what they get, especially these days! If It's on the internet, it must be true! Right?
Just has to take the old in tank filter out and fit that new one outside for ease of servicing.
I'm pretty sure he means do it preventatively BEFORE it gets clogged. If it's already clogged, this won't fix it.
Need to watch out for the turbos, spraying stuff down the engine
An out side the tank Fuel filter won't stop the one in the tank from getting plugged, it will catch what ever the one in the tank doesn't!
Very true I found out when I bout a good that wouldn't run that they put a manual pump on it but left the electric in tank and it was what caused it not to start changed it and wow it started
If the one in the tank doesn't catch the debris, the external filter WOULD ALSO let the same debris through...
@TheOzthewizthat's depending on how fine a filter it is!
Lol you are a genius hahahahahaha
@LETFREEDOMRING916 Nope, Just an Old guy with lots of Experience.
Drilling holes doesn't get u a vacuum leak code
OK, if the fuel filter in the tank is clogged up how is placing another filter down line help the flow?
Just use fuel system cleaner every other oil change
Exactly. I think you're going to be okay.
yea , makes no sense. i was thinking same thing.
I was assuming I'm going to have to take out the old filter anyway? Thank God my 2002 Tacoma has a fuel filter attached to the chassis I had an oem fuel filter, literally I think I'm the first person to ever change it and that was this year😂
Yeah I don't think I am going to be dumping laqor thinner in my tank 😂
Why not? Maybe use half a bottle in the tank and drink the rest
I can attest to the first 3 and I'm a professional mechanic and do the same. Throttle body cleaning, but I let the sea foam set in there for about 20 after is sucks it in. Then last week an old customer brought me a 2012 GMC Sierra with only 120k miles, the transmission was shuttering whenever the torque went into lock mode when overdrive engaged. I changed the filter and pumped in new transmission filter with 12 quarts total. It was like a new truck. This customer was overjoyed , felt like a new truck..
Can u help diagnose with a sound i can upload? Im at a loss
@dalaineprescott7485 Yes, I'll try
Absolutely amazing. General maintenance and common repairs are apparently all illegal according to this video. Seriously, where the hell do they come up with this garbage?!?
DO NOT INTRODUCE WATER INTO YOUR ENGINE AT ALL
I've got a hydrogen cell my car sucks it in it cleans it so clean the exhaust pipe outlet has no colour .. 380.00kms 😮
having a old car and always need to check the tips from youtube, but i found this video is very useful , thanks for sharing!
I like how they talk about the visibility of the fuel once you add an external fuel filter - but the filters they show are solid - no visibility 😢😅
Yea , adding a filter in Aline with the filter in the tank is still there , doesn’t that mean your filtering clean gas . Didn’t say shit about taking it out the one in the tank .
The fuel filter in your fuel tank is before the pump after the pump a filter cannot help tlif the 1st one is clogged
Just got out of jail after using one of these tricks do NOT try this at home
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mind confiding which specific "trick"?
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@Zi9Za99RUclips jail, the click bait trick
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Wheree do we find mechanics that will do this stuff?
None of these are " illegal " I wonder how many viewers will hydrolock their engines.
where'd those cats get the cool coveralls?
I reset my throttle body 15 years ago. I am due to be released from prison in 5 years. Be VERY careful when performing this technique. You never know when big brother is watching.
Laughed my ass off
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what bro got to do with it?
@karlsmith2451do you have the common sense to see the man is joking around.
@BrianLogan-h7cpoor bast ard but damn isn’t ignorance blissful.. he really thinks big brother is the same as Brodie. If he only knew what’s ahead 😅
Let me just drill 3 new doors for the mouse house. 😂
Nothing illegal here except the moron that made this. If you try some of these don't be surprised if you kill your car.
True dat
Which ones are you implying might "kill a car"
@zcs5434spraying water into your engine 🤣
Any ways you are all thieves ,you don’t give a shit to people ,what a fucking life.
@Its-Just-Si-Entertainmentbesides that one. On that one he says himself you can hydro lock your engine if done wrong
Illegal? So what's the fine and or prison time ?
None of these mentions any thing about the next in line system. Water intake trick, what about the catalytic converter and muffler. You may have just plugged them. The upgraded coil on the cylinders. Yes, that may help. What about spark plug temperature and live time. The holes in the intake may help if you are in a completely dry climate. The bottom of the air system is enclosed to keep water away from the air filter. Try pulling air through a soggy wet air filter and see how long your engine and exhaust system lasts.
Regarding the "water intake trick", the simple fact that excessive carbon is causing problems (assumably) in the engine means that the carbon is there already, and that means that the risk of said carbon breaking loose at random, and causing problems downstream is there as well. If you consider the actual issues that excesive carbon buildup may cause, like pinging (pre-ignition) and excessive Nox emissions, it can sometimes be a deathblow to the car itself. I've seen many cars go to the scrapyard prematurely because owners couldn't afford to fix them properly to pass a smog inspection, especially in California. More often than not, excessive carbon build up occurs on poorly maintained, high mileage vehicles. I've been a Ca Smog Tech since 98', and over the years there have been many such cars come through the shop that belong to people with very limitited income. The water in the intake trick made the difference in passing emissions or not, meaning that somebody's grandma gets to be independent for a few more years, or a young couple or single parent can get themselves to work, school or both until they can get something better, so as a smog Tech for 27 years I've done it many times. I'm sure I'll probably do it many more times. I'ts not a blanket fix, and not right for every engine, but I have yet to use it where it did any noticable harm, it has helped every time I've done it, and usually results in a sizeable emissions reduction. I will say that it requires a little bit of careful planning, some forethought, at least half a brain, and most importantly, patience, lest you get a crash course in the effects of hydro lock on an internal combustion engine (hint: i'ts no bueno per caca). I can't say that I would reccomend it for the average DIY'er (not without researching until they understand the process and the dangers first), but I would, without hesitation for a knowledgeable Tech. I agree with you on the other points you made, and ill add that holes in the air box make it easier for the engine to draw in air, but it also makes it easier to draw in dirt, mud, water, and debris, as well as making a great home for mice and or rats.
Good comment , i might suggest
any body going to drill extra air holes
under air box , probably a Good idea to add a Bit of metal screen material to keep out the rats , mice or whatever.
I saw The trick Of Waterinjection But Unless I Missed Something Or More Tired Than I Thought I Am ,I didn't See Any Instructions On Exactly How To Do It Please Inlighten Me On How To Do It Without Any Harm To My Car , I HAVE A 1990 Merc. Sable With About One Hundred And Fourty Thousand Miles On It , It's Running A Bit Rough And I Think This May Be What It Needs ,I just Drive It Around Town Short Trip's, It's Probably Carboned Up !!! Thanks !!! 😮😢😮
The throttle body rest trick is in most car manuals from auto parts stores.not a trick at all
18 illegal things to do its check your air pressure in that tire
This video jacked video from @ChrisFix
Reducing a sparkplug gap by 0.020” will be too cold of a spark and the engine will not run efficiently ya ding-dong.
I am a euro cat tech have been since 92 and none of this is real. The valve cleaning one will hydrolock the engine lol
I just did the 10 second accelerator remapping in my BMW. I was amazed by the throttle response, it is a different car. It is a used car, and responded to the previous owner I guess?
omg 35 years in the business ive seen it all now....pls do not cut open air cleaner box ..nothing is illegal here...
Ha, ha ha, this is funny, my car still has mechanical throttle LOL.
... and I still drive a stick-shift. 👍
Mechanical throttles benefit the most from a reset, especially when done with a scanner!
Some of those sensors, are hard to get to so if you're already going to pull it out, you might as well replace it 🤔
I would never recommend the water thing but I do recommend Seafoam
I've been a Ca Smog Tech since 98', and over the years as Nox testing & limits were first introduced and then gradually tightened, I've had a handful of cars where water was definately the magic sauce needed to reduce nox emissions. I don't recall seeing it as an official repair or maintenence procedure, so it requires a little creative writing on the repair order, but it absolutely works to remove exsessive carbon build up, reduces or eliminates ping and knocks the snot out of the Nox emissions. The video was correct in saying that it requires patience, and I would also add that it is not reccomended for morons to attempt.
I did a trick on my Toyota where I waited for the gas to be about 1/8 of a tank or less than I added a can of sea foam and ran it. Smoked it a bit but also cleaned it and ran better after.
Seafoam is pretty much just water with stuff that will burn to make it smoke pretty and look like the 9$/a can was worth it. The concept is this same, non compressible fluid added into the system so the carbon is forced to erode away.
I did the water-down-the carburetor on an old '83 F-150 that the owner parked and left for 10 years. I bought the truck, deleted all the smog/emission crap (which wasn't working or burned anyway). I pulled the valve cover and and picked large chunks of carbon off of the head, so I know that poor I6 was chocking to death. After carb rebuild, fuel flush, oil change, etc., I finally got it started. Did the steam clean trick and boy did I see all kinds of smoke and crap come out the tail pipe! With time and use, the truck/engine started working and running better. Lifters continued to rattle but eventually quieted down with oil changes and some seafoam treatment.
@KillerMcCoy1especially on diesel engines! The EGR valve system cakes on carbon deposits.
Put holes in my air box and water in the tank while my buddy revs the engine. Gonna try that but what if you use ever clear maybe even better
Water injection was started by the British during WW2 for there fighters. It stops pre ignition and basically acts as a higher octane rating. During the 60's and 79's hot rodders would use water to run higher boost pressures or run more advanced ignition. You can use a window washer tank and pump along with a reduced orifice to inject water at pre determined points. During the winter you mix alcohol with the water to keep the water from freezing in cold environments.
Good stuff nothing illegal
Not British else, but Germany too
You could use a nebulizer
@maureencallahan1604true. But they were not common back then. One other thing some used was boost pressure. They connected a tube with a check valve to the intake manifold. When they made boost with a blower, the pressure would pressurize a water bottle and it pushed water in the inlet side. The more boost, the more water. There is a maximum limit that the British found out when using it with there fighters. One byproduct of the water was to clean the engine of carbon. For anyone that is going to try it, read up and find books at the time in the 70 and 80 on the different systems people used.
A WSW tank might last 60 seconds or so --- you use a LOT of water to clean the engine and any water you add for performance would empty a 20 gallon tank in short time. Been there --- debunked it years ago.
That lacquer thinner in the gas, great way to eat your rubber gaskets and hoses
It's definitely good not to overlook basic cleaning and maintenance tricks. I would be careful with the intake method if you live in certain areas. Here in central Wisconsin. We receive a lot of rain. Back when all the high school kids, including myself, had cold air intakes on our rides. Heavy rainfall sometimes caused the water to splash up and cut out the motor. That is as well as huge puddles that can get as deep as a pool. I imagine just as much stress, if not more, for dusty/sandy environments. My 2014 Fiesta hatchback has a smart intake system that allows you to go into puddles up to the door latch without the motor getting killed as the intake inlet ends up in a pocket of air in most cases. Tested more than a few times during flood warning weather. Since then, I still have my cold air intake, but I created a protective walled section allowing plenty of cold air yet prevents heatsoak from the heat resonating from the engine and exhaust. Fire & heat resistant material used as well coated with it.
Adding a filter AFTER the internal filter will prevent the internal filter from clogging? 🤔
Now, the SOB’s have designed out the pan on some automatic transmissions to prevent you from cleaning the screen.
They are building in failure. They learned from the light bulb company that went out of business because their light bulbs never burned out.
(the Centennial Light, manufactured by the Shelby Electric Company around 1898-1900. )
I always wonder what's going to happen when LED is replace all lights because their lifespan is so long.
@RoadTripRuss I believe I’m understanding what you mean. LED bulbs will last thousands of hours but the ancillary circuitry won’t. There is a capacitor that in many (if not all) LED bulbs gives up in a year or so.
I also did that to mine
3 cans of seafoam in the intake, no difference. Took the inlet manifold off, the carbon was 'their'.......had to manually clean it all out using carb cleaner and much time.
Seafoam is the largest myth out there. Even Seafoam doesn't state it does what people claim.
Upper intake cleaner will most likely not clean throttle body intake. It's effect is more centered around the valves and manifold.
Where water will Really Work (removing carbon)is the piston face and every other surface in there where the explosion occurs. I'd say ...a quart per 4 cylinder sent through (if it stalls-to much too fast!) should on average make those surfaces Carbon FREE-clean down to metal
If ever I purchased with 100,000+ I would Definitely do the water thing - maybe even more....Oil's getting changed Anyhoo.
Where the clear fuel filter at. Didn't see it in the video.
Snort On that lacquer thinner thing. About 30 years back I sniffed a can of fuel additive. I do woodwork and recognized the smell of lacquer thinner immediately.
Years later, my 12 horse, 4,000 PSI Honda drive pressure washer was running like crap. My first thought was, thanks ethanol asshats. I dumped a tablespoon of thinner in my 1.5 gallon tank and ran the washer. Within 15 minutes, it smoothed out and ran fine.
Year before that, had a rear seal leaking. Neoprene seals. Dumped a teaspoon of thinner in the oil and that problem went away too.
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Curious what would help a transmission leak on a 2002 3.1 Pontiac Grand Prix.
@AnthonyCorbo-t4kI think you're pulling our legs here
@daviddowns7552stick some lacqeer in it. It's already leaking and it's a grand prix 😂
Ok, I guess it's my turn for a dumb question, so here goes: how did the thinner help the neoprene seal to stop leaking? Does it maybe cause it to swell, and how long has that lasted so far (I mean the fixed leak)?
disconnecting thefuel linea t the rail to use fuel injector cleaner ,, haha.
I don't believe I'm gonna drill a hole in the airbox, , id have to replace the air filter every 3 months, because it would be filthy
I think he meant drill holes in the INTAKE side of the airbox, not throttle side. DUH !
You just endorsed his assertion; without the extra 'flow holes' your airbox would obviousy be restricting inflow of cold air. I doubt your filter mileage would decrease by 10%, unless the holes allow water intrusion. Anyway, below 4000 rpm there's very little that will improve air flow. Point is, you want Coldest available air, not More hot air. Aftermarket intakes are $500++ and add only a few horsepower above 4K rpm. Physics! Now give me a huge muffler for anemic cheap Honda and I'll wear my hat backwards or over my ears -- much more dynamic and you can see/behold/hear my large billet from afar.
this video its so ILLEGAL !
Did you notice that a couple of times there was a license plates it was country of Canada!!
well this videos means nothing to me now as i am a US guy
I want the list of state statutes that outlaw these.
Introducing water into the engine at idle would necessitate a very fine mist. Better to do this not at idle but a higher RPM. 3,000 RPM would be more like it.
Yes, or at least a high idle.
Thank you 🙏
None of this is illegal. And half of it won’t help you at all.
Don't try re-gapping iridium and platinum tipped spark plugs.
If it's not pregapped to the correct spec, what other option do you have?
@twk1956 Iridium and platinum nodes are very delicate and they are supposed to come pre-gapped. If you stick anything in that gap you will damage the anode ( + fillament) and destroy it. I've never had any problems when I've used them from the manufacturer( Denso or NGK), BUT if you wish to try, be my guest !
@joeniccoli1916 Vehicles that require iridium by manufacturer will not function properly with copper standard plugs. If possible stick with the brand that is recommended in your owners manual under the MAINTENANCE section, particularly if this a vehicle under warranty.
@frankalfonso7070 Alfa Romeo recommended Lodge 2HL, Lodge Golden and Lodge Silver four tip sparks, the four gaps are non adjustable. In Alfas high-revving engines they tend to collect some soot in city driving-speeds and on low revs even on the road-speeds below 100km/h, but you don't need to replace the plugs, jus drive a few kms ln the motorway using the 3rd gear = high revs and the soot will burn out OR take the plugs and clean each one with a steelbrush then install the back.
I have an Alfa 33 1.7, I still use my first Lodges I bought in 1983 for an 1975 AlfaSud, in all these years I've had a total 31 Alfas and kept the same spark-plugs... they have about 18 million km on them and still going.
Really so what about aftermarket cars that requires the spark plugs to be gapped to a different spec. Do you just not gap and let your car run Sh!ty. You're not gapping the central electrode. You are spreading or closing the ground. Checking the gap after is not going to damage or hurt that electrode enough to damage it. Tell me you're not a car guy without telling me you're not a car guy.
3:22 The picture is backwards!
Took from a chrirsfix video
NEVER put a hole in the airbox! that's just asking for unwanted crap into it, dirt, sand, bugs.. and duh! Keep your inline fuel filter replacement done every 50,000 miles (if it has one) and don't let your gas tank go below 1/4 tank, it's makes your in the gas tank fuel pump work harder and get hotter than normal, parts obviously don't like heat.
It's obvious some folks don't maintain their car/truck properly but keeping the radiator coolant flushed on a decent interval and oil changes help keep an engine cool and MPG up, engines just like normal temps, not hotter, it just makes the viscosity of the oil break down all that much faster.. yeah it costs a bit more in the short term but in the long term, better gas mileage and longer engine life. Not rocket science but surprisingly a lot of people just don't do it and wonder why their vehicle breaks down... 😮
On the first tip giving how would you do that on a keyless car
Push the start button twice without pressing the brake. Press once for accessory and twice for on
I would look it up for your specific vehicle.Because while it's generally similar, not all vehicles have the same reset procedures
How does an external filter help the internal fuel filter. You still get gas from gas station inside the tank, which will have sediment in it
my engine is a magnesium/aluminum construction and the water vapor trick might damage it I think.
I guess look at the can his pouring. Home Depot....
Cold or room temperature water to direct 200°F. No you will be ok go ahead try it.
How do I remove get fluid chip sensor from my 2022 Chevy Silverado diesel Duramax
I’m not sure of most of these hacks. But I’ve used one taught to me by a mechanic who was a Master Machinist Chief in the USCG, for 15 years before coming to work for my Dad as a fleet maintenance technician. He told me on most gas and diesel engines the best easiest way to help clean carbon from the intake manifold to the combustion chamber was as easy as this. Bring the engine up to as high a temp as safety allows, even as far as blocking the radiator to get everything HOT as possible without boiling over. Then remove the air cleaner from the intake and bring the engine up to a high idle, while slowly spaying distilled water directly into the intake, not enough to stall but lower the idle, while the water is heated to steam, that will loosen up carbon all the way to the combustion chamber! Enough for you to see it in the exhaust as black smoke! Do that a couple times, then use a little Seafoam mixed with the distilled water. Then you should check the plugs is a good idea. But I’ve done this in every old car/truck I’ve owned with mixed results, but always positive. One car I owned came with a water injection system for use in warm weather, and cold with the tank heated in the engine bay enough to keep from freezing. That was a 1965 Chevy Corvair Monza, with a 164 ci 110 hp premium gas 4 speed setup. That would allow a 2degree timing advance over specs, with no pre-ignition that was cancelled out by the limited water vapor directly let into the base of each carburetor, to the point you could get away with 89 octane!
This was a good idea years ago and Lincoln/Mercury used dry rice to accomplish the same purpose. Rice is not suited in modern engines, b ut sometimes water helps a bit.
My father was a WW2 aircraft engine mechanic & when people brought him a car that was still not running properly even after a tune up , he would fill 7oz pop bottle about 1/2- 3/4 full of water & with the engine at full temp , crank the throttle open as he poured a 1/8” steam of water in which would really slow the engine down , do this 4-5 times to clean out the carbon .
He said the air force airplanes actually had a water injection system on them , when the planes were taking off , most of the time in overload conditions , always at full throttle , when they got to about 1000 ft you would see the smoke turn from black to gray , when they turned the water on as the engine was getting to hot to cool them & also helped save fuel . Water expanding into steam is powerful , also causes more complete fuel burn ; your car runs better on a wet day than a dry one !
@robertmintz63NO!!...
The water injection was NOT used for ANY of those purposes on the aircraft....
It was ONLY there to stave off detonation when in a high boost situation. That is IT!!
Edit: ALSO, "They" (the pilots) didn't "turn the water on". The system was automatic, and was triggered automatically by high boost pressures in the intake manifold that triggered a sensor/pressure valve to turn it on.
If you pour too fast you smash the engine.
Change oil after as lots of water goes into the oil.
@SurferJoe46 "Rice" ???
Make sure you write down any of these"tips" you try so the mechanic you will soon be taking your vehicle to will know what is wrong.
If you had a 30 sec trick, why did you rip the guy off for $1000?
14:40 What does the 'humble water' do to the catalytic converts on your car?
Because the Shop books say $1,000. You apparently don't know how dealers come up with prices do you? It's called book rate. It doesn't matter the actual.
On the water thing I have no clue what he's talking about and I would never do it
@RoadTripRuss I'm 82yo and believe me, I know how dealers work. I'm questioning this mechanic.
$1000 is definately rediculous, and probably not true, but most repairs are charged by the job aka book time, or flat rate. The powers that be determine the time that it would take an "average technician" to perform whatever task, and the customer is charged book time times the shop's (including dealerships) posted labor rate per hour. It's usually a win some, lose some situation depending on the job, and is designed to keep it fair for tech's (usually on commission aka flat rate) and customers. Basicly it boils down to this, a water pump job on a chevy caprice with a 305ci engine pays 2.5 hrs, the shop labor rate is $100 an hour, the tech's hourly rate is $20 hr (flat rate or $15hr garaunteed minimum), so the customer is charged 2.5 x 100 = $250 for labor + parts & tax and the tech will hopefully make $50 (2.5 x $20) for the job. The tech will turn in his time at the end of the pay period, both their actuall time worked and the flat rate time for all jobs completed, they will get paid whichever is more, either 40 hours (actuall time for 2 weeks) at $15.00 an hour or 52 hours at their hourly flat rate of $20, so in this example, the garanteed minimum is $600, and the flat rate time would be $1040 which means the tech would make the flat rate pay for the pay period and gross $1040, which in turn breaks down to $26 per actual hour worked ($1040 divided by 40 hrs worked in 2 wks). If a tech is good at his job, and can beat book time, he is rewarded for it, just as if a tech is slower, or takes 3.5 hours to do the 2.5 hour water pump, he will still only (potentially) get 2.5 hrs or his minimum rate at the end of the pay period whichever is more. Regardless of actuall time spent on it, the customer only pays 2.5 hrs (x the shop's sposted hourly rate) labor or book time for the job. Comebacks are done for no book time, and not good for anyone involved as you can imagine. The win some, lose some just means some jobs are a bitch, and you lose your ass on them, some are easy, and some get easier because you've done them 100 times before, and just because you can do them in a fraction of the time does not mean you should get paid less for that job, just as a slower tech won't get paid more, and a customer won't be charged more. Sorry, or your welcome for the over-simplified explaination, but I've found over the years that flat rate pay is a big mystery to many people, and I try to answer the questions before they are asked. You may have alredy known this, but for every 1 that does, 5 don't. Cheers.
@KillerMcCoy1 I'm assuming this guy is an independent mechanic. He has the discretion not to charge 'by the book'.
Shows the transmission drain hack as a simple top fill. Most cars now seem to say you can't. Only a dealer can fill up. Another hack, not mentioned for that.
I had good luck drain and refilling our ZF 9 speed in our 2020 black edition Ridgeline, Anyone with a ZF automatic trans should be doing this to keep it shifting smoothly, And yes if you're towing do it every 15,000 miles, Why? Oil is cheap transmissions aren't, And by the way Rockauto sells the correct oil just type in the year 2019 isn't the same as 2020, Two different transmissions.
Back blow the output coolant line, there's a screen in the trans that gets clogged, i do that to "fix" Honda trans and it's worked every time. I wonder how many Honda's went to the boneyard because of a tiny screen.
If holes are drilled into the air box then the engine will be pulling in a hot air from the engine compartment.
How much is a half a can of Lacquer thinner. Gallons? Ounces, Cups?
Laquer thinner..Thats a crapshoot at best...🙄
Half of a FULL can! Anymore questions?
@TheOzthewiz,
Only one, when will you put on your thinking cap and understand the question? EG, what size is the container being half emptied?
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You can tell the can is half empty, when it's half full!
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Yeah, I'd like to know the measured amount too...probably answer in Milliliters, thus still won't know!