Recent content by TwoC400s

Isn't Pearl's train 1 still up and running?

Like several here, I too think prices should (eventually) come back down. It's the timing that's probably the true mystery. Even if hostilities ended this very second, the lag to get the Pearl facility back to 100% of it's previous production (plus the lag of getting shipping through the...

This thread peaked my interest, so I figured I'd drop by the Wal-mart near my office during lunch. This is a smaller, non-SuperCenter wally world, and it was going through some substantial floor plan changes, so take this with a grain of salt. Oil filters: NONE. ZERO. Now this may be due to the...

nevermind, my forum view didn't show me updated posts

Replacing passenger side CV axle on 2008 Prius. Tried yesterday, but couldn't get the axle out of the transmission. Came at again today was finally got it out.

It's the same with Mercedes, you have to have it "precisely" at 45C, otherwise I guess it just immediately goes thermonuclear 💥

Additional note, oil consumption since the most recent oil change is UP. Just had to add an entire quart at 679 miles.

These pics are the third charge of RNP.

Another update and another wildly loaded filter! Changed the oil a while ago, and just forgot to cut open the filter until yesterday. I changed the Oil on May 10th at 304,376 miles. So roughly 6 months and 2800 miles, I'll let the pics speak for themselves. As you can see, RNP is still...

I see news reports this morning that the Iranians are closing the strait again. At this point I feel like it's Schrodinger's Strait, or Superposition Strait. Don't look at it!

I'll never understand the oil futures market. Just a bunch of speculators buying contracts they never want filled, for a commodity they have no use for. Then they just "roll" that contract over and do it all again. Absolute madness. Meanwhile the spot price (you know, the price actual industry...

Summer's in full swing, throw the cheapest 15w40 conventional HDEO in there until you hit another 1-3000 miles or first start temps get chilly, and then like everyone else here said, go find a nice Euro spec oil (I'm a MB 229.5 guy myself).

The only draw back is its maximum operating temp is a little on the low side, but I would hope that most CV joints stay below 300F most of time.

In response to the topic at hand, wouldn't Chevron Black Pearl 1 work for inner CV joints? It's poly-urea, no metal solids, has EP additives, it's the right viscosity... seems like a match. I looked all over for GKN's inner joint grease sold as a stand alone product and couldn't find it. You...

I just wanted to let you know, while using Google gemini to research inner CV joint grease, it quoted your post almost verbatim when replying about why the inner joints need a specific grease.