Recent content by Shovel Head Ted

I have been a farmers customer for over 30 years.Always decent service, until last oct. I was in a similar accident. I was stopped in traffic when I was hit from behind.Besides myself there were three other cars involved.Since I was at the front of all this I was the only one who did not have to...

I was all excited till I read it is not approved for us in Ca. I may have to move.

I have a park ave with the 3.8. I use Amsoil atf in it.Works great.It is dexIII. I have not tried the new atl witch is dexVI. Maybe next time.

I use Amsoil in my cars, trucks, motorcycles, boat and lawn mower. I use the filters too. I do this because I am basicly lazy and I take advantage of the long drain intervals. The increase in gas mileage is a plus.

I have always put anti-seize on the lugnuts of every vehicle or trailer that I have ever owned for the last 35 years. I put it on the threads and the base of the nut where it contacts the wheel, then torque to factory spec. I have never ever had one come loose. Very easy to remove nuts.

On my 96 GMC 4.3 I had to have the cooling system power flushed at 38,000 miles. This was not covered by the extended warranty because it was "corrosion".At 147,000 the LM gaskets failed. When I took it apart the Dexcool had turned almost plastic like where it started to leak.I replaced it with...

You can get amsoil that is DexVI

The amsoil ATF works great. I use it in 4 of my GM vehicles. Be fore I switched from the stock fluid, I could feel some slipping when towing on a steep incline with one of my trucks. After I changed no more slipping. This is on a road that I have driven on for 30 years.

Thanks for all the tips. I will try them out this weekend.

My neighbors new sprinklers covered one side of my truck with hard water spots. I tried the stuff that I use on my boat to remove spots, but it doesn't seem to work on paint. What should I use to remove these nasty spots?

Regardless of oil brand, change interval,etc. This boils down to a defect in this particular 6.4 motor. Maybe if UOAs were done every 5000 mi. They may have shown a trend toward coolant contamination. What if they didn't. What if a defective gasket let go 500 miles ago? This is clearly a defect...

I replaced the gaskets in my Gmc 4.3 with the new felpro ones about two years ago. So far so good. My dealer wanted $1500.00, so I ended up doing it myself for $80.00in parts. The original gaskets were totally desintigrated. The dexcool had partially plugged up one of the coolant passages in the...

This stuff works great. it worked really well in my 96 GMC 4.3 with 157,000 mi. After about 3/4 of a tank had run through it I was at a stoplight, and I thought the thing had quit on me. Luckily I looked at the tach before I tried to restart it. The thing hasn't idled this smooth in a long time.

It could also be coming out of a vent tube,and running down whatever the tube is touching.

I ride a 79 FXS I use MCV 20/50 most of the year,until it gets real hot in the summer. Then I switch to AHR 60 wt. I switched to amsoil about 7 years ago from Harley dino oil. its been great, bike runs cooler and uses less oil between changes. I also use 75/90 svg in my tranny.