Recent content by Cani

As long as you don't use Valvoline, they changed the maxlife oil removing moly. There are rumors that they even use recycled oil. with that as a base I wouldn't buy Valvoline ATF.

Hello all, Thanks for all the suggestions. The leak was in the elbows. I manage to change the elbows(the new metal ones with the original GM O-Rings) during the past weekend and new belt. Everything is ok now. I used the new Prestone formula from Walmart. Again, thanks to all for all the...

Thank you, I'm working on the dye thing right now(cheap that can do it myself), then I'm going to do the pressure testing. Please note that is not a huge amount of leak, I'll say a pint per 300 or so miles. Now I ask, the pressure test can detect this tiny leak? Please apologize me for my...

Thanks for your suggestion. If the elbows are bad, this pellets are able to contain the leak? Or this is mean to be used if the leak is inside the engine? Thanks

Thank you very much for the link to the video.

I lean to the common elbows problem, but my coolant is almost transparent Prestone All Makes / Models. I'll follow the dye method that was recommended here, hopefully I'm right. What bothers me is that it seems that 89k is too low mileage. The elbows should occur past 120K I believe.

Thanks guys for commenting the MMO. This was the experience. After a few miles that I added the MMO, the car ticks every time at start up the ticks disappear after 1 minute or so.(A noticeable tick sound). I didn't care because I read somewhere that this may mean that the car is extremely clean...

you tell me, that's a constant discussion with my wife. She has a '06 Pilot LX, we bought the car at the same time. This a summary of the comparison. Buick / Pilot Drive with care / She drive without any care, 2 kids + 2 grandpas (load) Loose oil (need some refill some each OCI) / Maintain the...

I'll add that I drive very conservative, I'm slow driver. Thank you for the dye tip, I didn't know that a thing like that exists. The worst problematic thing with the car was the transmission, I not a mechanic in any way, but I manage to install the TransGo kit with the help of internet, it's...

I only use the car for commute, therefore I can not isolate the mpg only for highway or city. My combined mpg (60/40) is 24~25 mpg, in some cases I got up to 26 mpg (may be depends on the traffic etc). I measure the mpg at the gas pump every time. This is '06 lacrosse basic model(CX) the...

As a side note, it seems that the MMO didn't thin the oil.

Thanks for you comment. 60/40 highway/city driving loosing coolant at - Need to refill the coolant reservoir every week, 27 miles one way per day commute. (4 days a week) 216 miles weekly. I check the elbows but it seems they are fine (I'm not sure though).

newbie here: Didn't mentioned to Blackstone what was the oil used. '06 Buick lacrosse 3800 Series III, 88655 miles loosing coolant plus some cleaning MMO Mobil 1 EP 5W-30 Refill: 28OZ of MMO last 1k miles Previous oil: kendall full synthetic GT-1 5W-30 It seems that the coolant it's going...