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It's impossible to avoid.

Right, the bearings are sealed. It's the seal faces that require some kind of lubrication. These are typically carbon against ceramic. The carbon half of the seal does provide some inherent lubrication properties as it wears, but the fluid adds some more.

Maybe it was part of their pipeline business several years ago. I remember something about them beingin some sort of partneship.

Thanks all that responded. Nice to know I'm not the only one. My UPS can stay on!

Valero has always been part of Marathon. I think there was some kind of partnership, or station sale several years ago. Maybe they're splitting that up again.

Waiting on the Bobistheoilguy site to load. For some reason the site is extremely slow today. Plus A popup asking me if I was human. That wasn't working right either. Plugged my Fiber Optic modem into a Battery backup system yesterday (from China) . I'm hoping it didn't come with some kind of...

Saw a video of a guy getting cut in half by doing that on a two piece truck rim.

Take the two lower ones off and see if they come back and ask for more.

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Wait a minute, you were supposed to use Prolong in engines? :unsure:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-pennsylvania-investment-cloud-infrastructure-ai-innovation I wonder where in Pennsylvania this might be?

At least it doesn't look like a cheap afterthought.

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/rotary-bearings/ball-bearings-1~/permanently-lubricated-ball-bearings-8/ Looks like commonly available.

WOW, no TABLET glued to the dash! That works for me.

Did you know that margarine was originally designed to fatten turkeys for market? Apparently we became the Turkeys!

I'd take Lard every time, or Kerrygold. I eat lots of cheese too, which is (also) now good for you. No, just real butter here. Or as they say, YOLO.

Well, what stuff is in it? Some stuff you don't want to get on your hands, other stuff, not too bad. Well, no, you really don't want to get any of that stuff on you.

As edyvw pointed out to me in a recent thread, 229.51 & .52 are low saps oil which are required if the car has a GPF. Sufated ash is not an antiwear compound but he advised that I NOT use a low SAPS oil in an MB calling for 229.5 or 229.6. Here is his post, hopefully it will help: "Lubrizol...

I've heard, but cannot prove that Mercedes factory plugs are "indexed" so that the plug gap faces a certain way when properly torqued. I think the gap opening faces the intake valves.

You guys should look up Trombe wall.