Message from @Yuma County
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It has more to do with your cars ECU and not emissions. When I took my mid-pipe and muffler off I drove that old pick up straight piped for a week. The truck's ECU didn't know what the fuck to do and retarded the engine to compinsate there being zero back pressure.
Unless you know for sure the filter wouldn't fuck up your ECU, I would just go with cleaning it.
oh right on, I didn't think of that. But you do this stuff everyday, I appreciate you bro
Keep trying on that bolt my friend, if you have an extra $100 lying around some time I would highly recomend that impact wrench.
I do, I probably going to order it.
I saved up a grand thinking a new cat would cost around that price. so I'm doing ok ahah
They're pretty nifty tools to have. Instead of struggling for hours on a stuck bolt, you can just Shoah it right off.
And then shoah it right back on too
I usually keep one handy if something's giving me issues.
yeah I need one, now my car is 11 years old and it's starting to have age problems. But as much as I hate this car I'll give it respect, this is the first major issue with it in 11 years. I had a vent canister solenoid go out, but nothing major. So an impact would be an useful tool have around.
>you can over torque bolts to commie cars to round them out so the wheels can no longer come off
don't ask me how I know that.
yeah for sure. I had a buddy do that years ago when we first started driving. He was so worried that his wheel was going to come off he cranked them down, and the next flat he got he was screwed
kek
been there, done that
gotta learn somehow
Anyone have any experience with rotary motors?!?
You're the one with the 80s RX7, right? @Whitelash
Yes sir
Wankel 13B rotary, right?
12a o believe the 13b is the rx8s
And Everything , I've been thinking about a swap or just letting the thing go
Anything specific?
Apex Seals maybe?
Hey goys! I have a question about my car. For like the past 6 months I have been getting the low tire pressure light roughly every two weeks. When I check my tires, all of them are around 25-27 psi and I'll fill them back up to around 30-35 psi. It's like clockwork that every two weeks my tires lose a steady amount of pressure, where I can pretty much predict the exact day my pressure light is going to go on again. If there was low pressure in only one tire, I'd expect it to be the tire - but since it's all of them I think it's something else. I have alloy rims and figured that maybe the tires weren't installed properly. Any thoughts? I don't want to buy new tires if the issue might be something else. Any thoughts?
How old are they brother? If age is causing wear, you can expect multiple tires to slow-leak at the same rate.
Take a bottle of soapy water and squirt them down. It will bubble up where your leaks are at no matter how slow a leak is.
Also, I never buy new tires. I have a tire shop in Louisville that I go to and they keep used tires. $35 for a tire, mounted and the ruined one thrown out. It took a while to find a tire shop ran by white boys but they are still out there.
@Steve - NJ do what @Nick E.#1856 suggested. Any and all leaks will show with soapy water. It sounds like it may be a beading issue if all four of them are bleeding air like that. Did you have all of your tires replaced at a similar time by the same place?
@Deleted User they are about 3.5 years old. The tread is still in decent shape since I don't commute very far. @Yuma County I did have my tires done all at once so it is likely also a factor. If it's in all tires though I would think it's something to do with their grip on the rims or something. @Deleted User I never knew people could expect to get much out of used tires either. Thanks guys for being helpful
If your tires are that old it may be because of that as well.
Does anyone still recap tires? or is that a thing of the past?
probably showing my age with that question ahah
More or less a thing of the past.
I should probably just get new tires at this point
@Yuma County What is the beading issue all about?
the bead is where the tire meets the wheel and forms a seal to keep the air pressure in more or less.
Older tires have a bit of an issue holding a bead when they age.
I'll have to mention that when I go to my mechanic. Hopefully they can give me a few options. Thanks again
Some of your alloy rims may have a little oxidation that forms around the seal which requires a little cleaning off whenever they break the tire down. I've seen a couple of rims that just would not hold air because of the pitting caused by this