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    Slightly sluggish acceleration

    I have an 89 Firebird TA, 5.0L, TPFI engine. My brother in law had the exact same car. I take meticulous care of mine and he didn't. Yet I continue to have something that sounds like slight pinging with any acceleration. It gets loud on hard accel. I use Rapidfire plugs and they were checked...
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    Superplug Magnetic Oil Drain Plug

    I have magnets around my oil filter and a 3" magnet on my oil drain plug. The ones on my filter trap particles that are obviously bigger than the black sludge on the drain plug. I think this black sludge is very fine metal that gets through the filter.
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    Mobil 1 oil filters

    I,ve seen the same thing in other filters and given the same warning. Nobody replied so I don't know if they even cared or not. Even if you don't see any filings, if you wipe the threads you will probably wipe off a black substance that may be cutting fluid. There may be tiny particulates in...
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    Engine Dirt: Oil Filter vs Air Filter

    Greg, Be afraid, be VERY afraid. (I've always wanted to use that line somewhere.) I've wondered the same things and I once asked a similar question on another forum (before I found out about this one) and I was literally laughed off it, by the moderator no less! To some people, max airflow is...
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    Work gloves

    I agree, gloves are great for keeping hot oil off your hands during an oil change, and they protect against cuts from those sharp edges around the engine too. I find ordinary kitchen gloves sufficient that I get at K-Mart or Wal-Mart. But $36 is a lot for something that can get sliced up in a...
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    open oil filter?

    I've used a hacksaw in the house with a ***well drained*** filter and a lot of newspapers to catch the filings. It didn't make too big of a mess or take too long. Nothing happened that made me regret doing it.
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    Magnets on oil filters

    Larry, Just epoxy the magnet to the outside of the pan. Whether the pan is aluminum or iron, especially aluminum, the field of a typical strong magnet is strong enough to extend through the pan so there's no need to put it inside the pan. I did this myself for a while. If you feel you must put...
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    Old White Paper but still pertinent

    The article sounds biased, noting the problems with zinc, phosphorous, and sulfur extreme pressure additives, compared to the benefits of Duralube and Prolong Oils but barely mentioning the fact that they contain chlorinated paraffins to get their good lubricity. The article completely neglects...
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    The best magnetic solution?!!?

    I don't know about the alloy, but I believe chromium itself is one of the 4 naturally occuring ferromagnetic elements. The other 3 are iron, nickel, and gadolinium. Another thing I've never seen any data on is whether or not the atomic metal in solution which is measured by a spectroscopic...
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    "The Motor Oil Bible" is it a good read?

    What I didn't like about it was the description of what the "w" meant in multi-weight oils. The author claims to have lots of experience but so did people on other forums who'd been in the business for many years. Each said the other was wrong...big argument. To this day I don't know who is right.
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    The best magnetic solution?!!?

    In short, no. You would need 2 things to cause a problem. 1. The magnet would have to be quite close to the electronics. Even for strong magnets, the field strength falls off rapidly with distance. 2. The field would have to be fluctuating to induce a current in the circuitry. A static field...
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    Question on magnetic drain plug

    I have magnets on my filter which catch metal of all sizes, and a homemade oil plug magnet 3" long which only catches really FINE stuff, so fine it looks like black mud. Maybe this is the stuff that makes it through the filter. In any case, it's always a LOT less than what I find inside the...
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    Oil Filter Magnet

    I've had 8 strong magnets on my filters for the last 13 years and they have always collected piles of metal filings. So much in fact that it worries me to see it all! Some pieces are big enough to look grey/silvery, while other stuff is so fine it looks like black mud.
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    The best magnetic solution?!!?

    I've been using magnets for 13 years now and they always catch metal particles. A company with a good selection of magnets is Edmund Scientific. They have a free catalog and can be reached at any of the following urls: http://www.edsci.com/ http://www.scientificsonline.com/...
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    Use of methanol

    I don't know how to explain what you saw. I'm a chemist and I've never seen methanol react with aluminum like that. I suspect there was something else mixed with the methanol which you didn't know about. Or, maybe your pump wasn't designed for use with methanol. Here is a portion of an MSDS I...
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