Originally posted by gemcleod
So, why don't mechanics do this at the shop?
I do it all the time,the straight water works and doesn't make much smoke, But the G.M.X-66 cleaner is nasty stuff and ya can't believe how much smoke and stink it makes. Before the Dept.of Natural Resources decided they needed to toughen up the test standards I could use the water trick to clean up older cumbustion chambers & Cat.Conv. enough to get em thru the emission test on a lotta cars,when they got tougher had to use the X-66 more often,Now they got so tough that most of em I gotta get out my laptop,OTC Genysis, and wrenchs. Only thing I can reckon as to why all wrench's don't do this is the Shop owner,shop foreman, and the Mech's themselves, They are all three after the bottom line,Ya gotta remember that most shop Foremans & Mech's are on commision, with the shop owner breathing down there necks,so do they do a simple 1 hr, $75.00 procedure or do they sell ya a $500.00 dollar cat( parts&labor ) a $200.00 tune up and a $150.00 injector cleaning to achieve the same result.What do you think? But thats definatley not the case with all shops and especially mine and a number of independents that I'm familar with.Streets made a comment on the Engine magement post about not taking his cars to the over paid,high priced SPAZ-A-Mo-Toad and it burnt my butt, although I gotta lot of respect for him, I'da probally tried to knock his runnin lights out at that moment if he was here, but after thinkin about it I know theres lotsa shops givin us honest Mech's a bad name and the same goes for about any service ya can think of..... Sorry for the RANT ....oh and I gaurentee the water trick works,ever pull the head on 1 with a blown head gasket ? the cylinder that was gettin the coolant will be shiny spankin clean......... I'm goin home 14 hrs is nuff... SEEEEEEE Ya.