Recent content by rubberchicken

Why not go with a Dot 4 brake fluid ?

I must have missed your reply. Before I would consider Drydene products, I would have to see a virgin oil analysis, and possibly figure out who the real blender(*) is and more info on the additive package. Now that said, the reason I chimed in is that wayyy in the past I knew some of the...

I am puzzled as to why you include Drydene on your list- although its a very old company, they used to be in the business of gathering and refining used motor oil. The company has constantly been shrinking over the last 20+ years so that its now just a brand name. I personally would never...

If you look at the video as pure entertainment, it was pretty good. I wonder if this test was originally supposed to have some scientific/consumer validity, but went off the rails so he turned it into a torture test. But we did learn that valve grinding compound is dangerous stuff.

How do you plan to shorten the frame ? I thought they had special heat treatment or other such magic, and welding on the frame was discourage ? PS- I know next to nothing about big trucks.

I got the impression that the NVH software was $399 based on the first video I watched, but realized later that its really $100. I might get that for my own personal use.

I forget which channel, but I recently watched a video where they were troubleshooting a similar problem, and it turned out to be dirt/rust on the brake rotor and hub. Previous repairs never properly cleaned the tire/rotor/hub mounting surface, so they got very strange vibrations. Also, your...

That sounds like an interesting idea !!

I had a talk with Amsoil today, and got the specs on a bunch of different oils. This is the 20w50 ARO AROQT BORON0 SODIUM0 MAGNESIUM0 CALCIUM3614 PHOSPHORUS1258 ZINC1384

I just did the rear brakes on the wife-units 2017 Escape. There is a procedure you can do that retracts the electronic parking brake actuators- hit a few buttons in the right order. Far far simpler than removing the actuators. I feel your pain on the recessed brake caliper bracket bolts- I...

That is my main worry- slowly poisoning the cats, not clogging them.

There are plenty of oils out there that meet the NMMA FW-C standard, and the Quaker State 25w40 has a reputation in the hi-performance marine industry as just being average, while being very high priced. I would rather not use it.

There has been occasional VOA of this Quaker State 25w40 oil, and it has been shown to be nothing special over the last 10-15 years. So I do not have any reason to think its radically changed recently. My quest is an alternative to the Quicksilver 25w40 oil as I stated in my original post.

That is a huge help- but steers me back to the original question should not be "what API level" but "what level of phosphorus is harmful given average oil consumption, on a 10w+ or higher oil". But its not an AI error, rather an error in my question. Is this a correct question for my use case ?

Here is the problem- marine engines run at 50-75% load at cruise, and even the best are going to burn a quart every 50 hrs or less. That is like burning a quart of oil every 3000 miles. From an oil cost perspective, one or two quarts per year at this rate is certainly acceptable, but if the...