Recent content by gudmund

I hope the euro guys chiming in here realize that when us American bloks say "K's" we are use it as slang for "miles" traveled - not Kilometers! 3000'ks'(miles) here in the states equals about 5000 real K's driven in Europe(and else where in the world). Do I believe in the 3000mile oil change-...

PS: I grow up in a Full Service gas station and pumped it from the time I was 11 till 19years old and than for another year or so after my dad passed from age 22 till 24 years old(1965 thu 1978). Yes there was a such thing as FULL SERVICE gas station's back than. 1965 at .19 a gal-regular &.23...

When self serve happened in the late seventy's/early eighty's here on the west coast, Oregon passed a law 'not' allowing it. They have never had self serve and I get into trouble every time I go though there. The attendent's freak out when I put my 2oz of UCL in before pumping gas and want to...

THE MID 70'S were a bad time for oil and camshafts. There were alot of cams being eat'nt up and Detroit was blaming on oil and oil blaming it on Detriot. The claim was soft metal in the cams and oil not meeting Detroit oil spec's. This was also about the time (late seventy's) that they started...

Sorry for the misunderstanding. My main point pertained to the use of Lucus UCL and how someone thought it was the reason for the elevated SODIUM levels in the Colorado's oil sample and WHY my six(6)oil samples taken over a 65thou mile period of time never showed much of any sodium(4 of the 6...

6 oil samples/5 were 10thou(starting at 60thou) each using reg. M1 3 times & AMS/GC 1 each and the last one using M1/EP for 15thou(from 110thou to 125thou) and NEVER in any of them was there a problem with Sodium #6-8-3-3-4-7#!!! This car has had UCL in every tank from 37thou till today when it...

has UCL kept my injectors & valves clean? How am I too know unless I was to put a scope down it's intake. I do know it's still averaging the 43.+ overall mpg with over 158++thou miles on it which must say something for it not being too conjested up with crude. Plus it is a newer than 96 model...

I made a run using M1/EP 5/30SL awhile back and Blackstone came up with a TBN of 3.6 after the 15000 mile run I put on it. 6.2 after 11000 miles? I can see it. The EP did much better for me than the other 3 10000 mile runs I did on regular M1 which still all did great. 98 Suzuki Swift 1.3L 4cyl...

lUCAS UCL is more of a top cylinder lubricant(U=upper C=cylinder L=lubricant) and states so along with it having NO solvents in it on it's bottle and I have used it for the last 120thou++ miles in a 98 Suzuki Swift using M1/AMS/GC every 10thou miles and after 6 oil samples and 55 thou...

already have over 60 Motorcraft FL400s in stock from when W-M was dumping the MC line than they brought them back at higher prices (less than $2.80 something each-now $3.28 last time I looked) think I will be good for awhile!

than cardboard sides would crush down than the spout would LEAK!!! Than you would find the 'GOOD' spout that would cut great and never leak only to have some jerk steal it from you. I speaking from the days of running a "real" service station from yesteryear.

have fun!!! everybody thought I was a little funny buying all the M1 SL 0/5w30 when it was replaced with SM.(gots 175qts+) well after Katrina and the price increases I'm sitting cheap!! (got most of it with PepBoys buy3/get3free deal) Let see 60+ FL400s MC filters/17 Purolater Airfilters/10...

under the valve cover is CLEAN! looks GREAT!! will be rol1ing 139,000 miles tomarrow on the way to work.

138,000 miles and still running fine with M1!!!!

the Yaris(2100-2300lbs) is not that lite. It's heavier than any Geo Metro/Suzuki Swift(1600-1950lbs)(my first Metro-88-was only 1560lbs)