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[Jeanway 0]

I know there is alot I don't know about my car. I do my own tune-ups and add fluids and stuff like that. But when it starts making some funny sound, most guys know exactly what's wrong where as I think it's just a squirell under the hood

[fenriz275 0]

I don't really know that much about cars. What I do know has been from experience. Like what it sounds like when you're brake pads are totally gone and you're down to the rivets. Eventually I decided I needed to find out what that horrible grinding noise was, especially after it got too loud for the radio to drown out. I have a whole checklist of noises that my car is supposed to make. If I hear something new then I have to go investigating. Or turn the radio up.

[Jeanway 0]

Yea, well, you see, it's like this, for me anyway. If the car still rolls, stops and steers, I figure why worry. But then if you let the transmission fluid get so low that the dip-stick is dry, hmm, I just did that. That will prevent the car from rolling, I don't like that. And that horrible grinding when you try to stop isn't good either. I got that going on too now. :( My steering is good though.

[nik 0]

In high-school and college, I did all of my own repairs. The most difficult was replacing the valve seals on my Mustang without an air compressor. Most of the time, it was just

tinkering.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

My mechanic told me not to worry about the leak under my car. It's when it STOPS leaking that I need to worry.

[Jeanway 0]

That sounds logical to me :blink:

[A l t e r E g o 9]

My mechanic told me not to worry about the leak under my car.  It's when it STOPS leaking that I need to worry. 

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We must have the same mechanic mine said the same!

 

So I noticed ours had stopped leaking and took it into the shop, he said I was right on time; one quart below empty.