Recent content by Magnumdude

My lovely bride and I took a 60 month loan on our first vehicle. We ended up not so wild about it and that was when we learned the term “underwater” on our loan. Same thing everyone else is talking about; we owed more than the truck was worth. That was 40 years ago. We never made that...

The only thing I remember that long ago was who I first had sex with.

hBN is replacing moly in the long range shooting sports.

I need to take this as a learning opportunity. Under what circumstances does it occur? Why does it occur and is it deliberate?

He also stated that for the first couple of hundred miles the "new" oil is busy stripping the lubricity layer from the surfaces the "old" oil had deposited so that the new oil cold deposit its lubricity layer. I'm not a tribologist, but I don't believe I need to be one to doubt the basic logic...

I can’t remember ever hearing of an engine being ruined by changing the oil too often.

I have a 2018 GMC 1500 with the 6.2. I could smell the fuel in my catch can. I run short OCIs because I have a mental disorder that causes extreme anxiety that increases exponentially the farther over 2500 miles I let my OCI get.

I had an Amsoil Oil Bypass system installed. Two filters came with the system. The free flow filter is a 20 micron filter, the bypass filter filters out anything 2 microns or larger.

My mistake - that filter quite clearly is the original filter, thus it has 20,000 miles of oil through it and 100,000 miles of unfiltered oil around it.

I change my wife’s oil in her Chrysler Pacifica. It has the 3.6 Pentastar 6 cylinder engine. I change the oil every 3000 miles. The filters come out looking just fine. That sludged up filter in this thread has to be the original filter with at least 50,000 miles on it. Typical of drivers...

Awesome! I love Erma Bombeck! My mother introduced me to Erma Bombeck more years ago than I’ll admit.

It might take up less space on the oil container and drive the point home more definitively to list the few oil weights left that the Trooper can’t use.

I believe you said there was a little sludge in the filler neck and some on the fill cap. That would indicate to me that that if the filter emergency bypass isn’t already shunting unfiltered oil right back into circulation it will be doing so soon. IF that’s the case you shouldn’t be terribly...

You just gave me something entertaining to do when I have down time diring my hobbies.

0w8 must have the viscosity of rubbing alcohol.