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I have 4 of these 2V 5.4 engines and a 5.8, all with this crank snout direct driven oil pump. I recall this also being controversial when fist introduced because all previous oil pumps had been submerged in the fluid. This design work out, but I'll not be buying anything with wet pump or timing...

Yeah, the ol clay bar, followed by swirl remover and topped with yellow #26 wax. All day event but looked great.

Then there are good US companies who don't even try to get into the SLI battery market, likely because their product price would eliminate them from consideration by most. US Battery makes a deep cycle golf cart battery that is on par with any FLA you can buy and the company is 100 years old...

It's a 250, asphalt will do that.

My first couple of years in the military I stood in a line on payday and got paid in cash. Then they started paying us with checks, and many would go stand in a new line to cash the paper check they just received. It was a pain, about a 3 mile walk to the nearest bank and I didn't have a...

Maxxis. When I bought my toy hauler is came with chinese maypop tires, I immediately changed them and have never had a tire issue. Also run Maxxis trailer tires on my boat and utility trailers.

The problem is how GM deactivates the cylinders. These engine have a secondary high pressure oil pump that operates the lifters and when the ECU deactivates cylinders it cuts the oil flow to the 2 lifters of that cylinder...so the lifters kinda "float" there in the bore without oil pressure to...

The problem with these engines is mechanical lifter failure, no oil will prevent what happens to them. The lifters don't fail from lack of lube.

Of course they have, I took the original context to be "major repairs" because the subj was battery life.

That is 100% not true. I have a fleet of 20+ year old vehicles that have never needed any major repairs, they are not throw away vehicles. - 98 F150 4x4, 176K, all original drivetrain, still has the OEM AC compressor, water pump and PS pump. - 2004 3L Escape 4x4, 165K, all original drivetrain -...

That is because they expire today, freeze what you don't cook tonight.

I keep one of the universal ones on hand, they come in handy to troubleshoot with. They won't fit where a 5 or a 7.5 are intended to go but you can configure them to act as 5s or 7.5s until you can get an actual replacement.

I think an AC compressor would suck up all 8HP this thing has

Kohler sells a house brand 10w-30 and it has some impressive VOA on here.

It does but it doesn't flake off. I've used it to store crankshaft etc

I put the Royal Purple syncromax in my T-6060, totally eliminated a 2nd gear "notch" it had when going into 2nd. I didn't tell my Wife that I changed the tranny oil, she drove it to work one day and sent me a txt saying "what did you do to the shifter, feels so much smoother"

Where will it be when not in use? If the answer is outside then it doesn't matter what you get. For a half acre literally anything would work, find a used rider with a 38-42 inch deck for 500 bucks and call it good.

They are cutting down corn for silage around here, didn't get the rain when the corn needed it, no ears on the stalks. Hard to say what the national corn output will be but the east coast harvest will be drastically down.

It will most likely be extremely lean if it'll run at all, because stoichiometric for E85 is 9.7:1 and E10 is 14.3:1. Non Ethanol is 14.7:1 Flex fuel vehicles use wideband oxygen sensors, non flex use narrow band sensors and a narrow band won't be able to make the adjustments needed to the short...

Yeah, I've had mine serviced 3 times and I've replaced a couple links and pins in the bracelet, but any watch you wear every day for 25+ years is going to require some sort of maintenance and repair.