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Some of the mechanic shops burn the used oil to heat the shop and will take your used oil .

I've been heating my house with wood since I was a kid I finally stopped when I recently retired, I cut my own trees split stacked etc , My favorite firewood is ash , it has a great btu output with a cut it today burn it tomorrow capability, its easy to cut and split burns very clean , my...

You don't keep a air pressure gauge in your glove box ?

This is my wife's Jeep , she drives about 5 minutes to work each day , during the 8600 miles we took the vehicle on a 2000 miles round trip , the 0.5 fuel is a little concerning , possibly from long idling . The oil life monitor was at 9% at the time of the oil change it looks like I'll be...

goaliefergy53, we didn't notice any difference mith the sound or the fuel mileage , but i only ran the rotella 5w40 when it was hot/worm and we only ran the 5w40 for about 8or9 thousand miles since then it been 10w30 high mileage super tech or valvoline is what I've been running for probably the...

take a look under the oil cap on the cylinder head right below the cap are numbers , when i got my wife's 02 concord i could just barley read the numbers , i ran rotella 5w40 for 5000 miles found this site and freaked about all the hipe with this motor being a sludge monster , i changed the oil...

if you get the Polaris be aware that the radiators have a problem betting packed/plugged up with mud , I've had a few Polaris's (ride bomb now) and still have allot of friends that ride Polaris almost every long ride we all take at least one Polaris over heats because of the radiator being plugged ,

i have a 2006 800 outlander max the older mdls did have a problem with the frames being week (ie bending )as mine did when my buddy ran into the back of me with his 2009 outlander max , my frame bent and had to be replaced , my buddys wheeler had no problems at all , now my wheeler has a new...

any one have these tires from wally world they are only made for wallmart as per the goodyear web site they are nice price in my area $95 each w/80,000 mile warranty ... these tires are going on my wife's chrysler concord ... any info would be great .. thank you

this is a uoa 12/05/06 using rotella t 5w/40 w/5000 miles on the oil aluminum 2 chromium 1 iron 12 copper 21 lead 1 tin 0 mokybdenum 7 nickel 0 manganese 0 silver 0 titanium 0 poyassium 0 boron 9 silicon 4 sodium 4 calcium 2853 phosphorus 1005 zinc 1238 barium 0

Originally Posted By: drivewaytech Glad to see things are going well with your 2.7L. I own one myself (06 model). The UOA looks good. Even though you have a tbn of 3.2, I would stick with the 3k OCI, due to that engines reputation. I run Grp III synthetic oil with 3 to 4K intervals to be on the...

Originally Posted By: rshaw125 Was this in the dark red 5 quart jug? The 2.7's are hard on oil. The UOA looks impressive. yes this is the dark red 5 quart jug also i used the st filter

Tack i'm not sure who made the oil i'm from N.Y. if that helps you

this is my wifes car with 93,000 miles on it. the oil and the filter are super tech , 10w/30 high milage , i'm very happy with this uoa ... aluminum 1 chromium 0 iron 5 copper 3 lead 0 tin 0 molybdenum 4 nickel 0 manganese 0 silver 0 titanium 0 potassium 2 boron 13 silicon 3 sodium 5...

I e-mailed Blackstone and asked them about taking the sample for the UOA from the filter would make a difference ,there comment:As far as your last oil sample is concerned, taking it from the filter doesn't appear to have affected anything. Sometimes it causes insolubles to read high, though...

Johnny I put the info on the comment sheet when i sent the sample to Blackstone but i think they may have missed it , what would have changed ? would the oil be a little higher in viscosity ?

this report is for a 2006 Dodge w/a 5.9 Cummins --Blackstone comments: with only 13500 miles on the engine, it's still pretty new and likely hasn't quite made it past break-in. That may explain the increased iron. The increase may also be due to hard driving or heavy towing and if thats the...

looks as if your right about just meeting the ci-4+ this is the e-mail i got from Valvoline.." They are similar but not exactly the same. Premium Blue will exceed the spec while Napa only meets the spec."

i was just in napa trying to buy some Valvoline PB they where all out and will only be getting the new cj4 oil ,any way the parts guy said there napa oil was made by Valvoline and sure enouph the bottle says made by Ashland inc. and it's the ci-4 plus i was looking for

as per Valvoline the TBN is 10 i was trying to see what the difference was between the Valvoline PB 15w40 and the new Rotella 15w40 both are CJ-4 oils. the Rotella was checked here and it had a TBN of 10.3 but, both oils have very different add packages what would you all use between the two ...