Saw dust in the tranny fix's any kind of slipping

 

Saw dust in tranny is very true, One HUGE thing when buying a car from a small lot, once they get your money your stuck with a burnt out tranny thats on its last breath.

 

Yep. I've heard about the sawdust trick also.

D Moss

 

I heard you could use a live chicken as a 3000 stall torque converter too. Is it true?

 

Bananas in the rear end to quiet it down. An old guy I know said a Ford 8.8 takes about 12 full bananas. And if you're in a pinch, a piece of belt leather as a bearing. I've also heard of banana peels as bearings, but I'm a bit skeptical of that one.

 

When you put the pepper in, don't forget to drop in a small diagram of your coolant system with an "X" denoting where the leak is, this will expedite the process.

 

pepper, egg whites, coffee grounds, they all work, but be careful. i bought my car from a used lot and apparently the salesman thought that coffee grounds would be a good stop leak for the radiator. when i checked my coolant one day i found that it smelled like burnt coffee and was black as sin. oh yeah my heater core has also clogged up three times on me.no heat whatsoever
he must have used a whole bag of breakfast blend or something

 

My mom has a 91 Shadow Convertible (WAY SLOW lol its sick !), maybe its a 92 i dont remeber, At anyrate , she got it in 92 or 93 with 11K miles on it. It was from a legit Dodge Dealer. Tranny always felt fine then one day.... Well 9 or 10 years later at 21K miles ( This past year she put on 500 lol ), only a few miles after the extanded car warrenty thing was up, the tranny died, couldnt move it self ... When the mechaninc took it apart, there was "burned wood sludge" in it as he put it, and had asked me and my dad if either of us put the sawdust in. Guess it was the derty mexicans who owned it before we got it ! ... It was Demo car from Mexico, has a out of country thing marked on the title lol. After bitchen at Dymler, they sumhow actually agreed at paying for part of it since it was only like month , and something like 50 miles over the extended year warrenty she got with it. Im not really sure of all the years and how it all worked it , but it was close to like 9 years after she bought the car and only put like 9 or 10 K miles on it ... ANd the extended powertrain warrenty went up like a month before it happened ... Also , what is a temporary fix for an oil leak lol ? My old dirtbike has a slight leak at the cylender base gasket. Its a 4 stroke,1982 but its in good shape other then the leak. Starts on 2nd or 3rd kick always ... Gotta love Honda hehe ...

 

Tie wire is some quality **** ... Can be used as exhaust hangers when beating an old Jeep in the iddle of nowhere at your cabin ... Hangers broke, so me and my cousin tie wired it up , and its been that way for 2 years now , seeing some pretty severe 4 wheelin lol ...

 

Nearly all car companies use a stop-leak product in the cooling systems of new cars. (that is part of what makes that skanky looking line on the recovery bottle) The GM product for the aftermarket comes in tablet form each one about 4 times the size of a "tums" tablet. They aren't a "stop leak" they are for normal stuff that happens to new or freshly worked-on engines. Sometimes, before all of the parts get "happy" with each other, there can be little weeps at headgaskets, water pumps, etc. The pellets can be found at any auto parts store, they are called "Bar's leaks" HDC (Exactly what GM sells) or the powder form G12BP. http://www.barsproducts.com/origin.html


The magic ingredient? Ginger Root. GM did testing and found that it took about 40 packets of the tablets to actually clog a heater core. I usually put two tablets in any engine that I do work on that involves the cooling system.

Car companies do this so when mr. customer gets home with his new car he does not find any little puddles of coolant under it the next morning. From what I can see it does no harm and GM has included it recently in a bulletin on 3800 intake manifold coolant leaks. The stuff does work and is not a detriment to the system unless you go insane with it. Again, this won't fix a car that has a stream issuing from the radiator, it is just a little insurance for fresh engines in my book. Broken parts are broken parts - period, there is only one way to "fix" them, - replace the part.

BTW, the gooey tar-like stuff in the bottles is not reccomended by any car company. I wouldn't use them unless I was stranded on the road without any hope of a real repair.