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On topic ... Anything with glyphosate in it; mixed to the proper ratio of about 5% for application. Off topic ... You'd be happy too if you could eat/digest anything without gut distress, sleep when you felt like it, and had no general cares. It's all fun and games until someone comes to...

Any time you can average less than 2ppm of Fe per 1k miles, and the other wear metals are in the low single digits, it's doing well. The contamination is acceptable on all your UOAs as well. Nothing but a good running engine there.

I find that very hard to believe; skipping three teeth because the pump shaft is that much "tilted". If the shaft of the water pump can "tilt" so much as to put so much slack in that the chain that the hydraulic tensioner can't accommodate the problem, then that would indicate a severe and...

There is an excellent YT channel by a guy called "Pete Judo". I highly recommend this channel if you want to understand the problems in science/research/academia. He does a great job of exposing the fraud in academia. He doesn't do the research, but he reports on others efforts in a very...

Fuel efficiency is VERY hard to accurately measure in the field with regard to input changes; it's much more easily studied in the lab where the variables are tightly controlled. I doubt anyone can truly prove any substantial increase in a few runs to/from somewhere. The point of the PEA is...

Honda and Suzuki.

If you have rebuilt a diff 7 times (SEVEN !) and not got rid of the concern, then there is one of two things wrong: - the gearset is not machined properly; you need to get a different set - the housing diff has not been machined properly; get rid of that axle and get a different one No lube is...

Note ... The inappropriate content has been removed. Let's keep it polite and not taunt others.

A used Grand Marquis from your old neighbor lady down the street.

You're not nuts for considering conventional oils. You are, however, nuts for starting a conversation on BITOG without any bounds. Choosing a lube is not just a one-size-fits-all topic; it's part of an overall maintenance plan. You should consider many things in the application: - planned OCI...

The laser cleaning is only applicable when the engine is disassembled ... Not really useful for the average Joe.

I've had to delete many posts for various violations. We're done here.

The 3.5L n/a motor is from the Cyclone engine series; these are very robust engines. Because this is a longitudinal mount motor, it doesn't even have the infamous internal water pump issue; this makes it very reliable. These engines wear very well; typically great UOA results. And they run...

Real.

RIP

It's typical that one motor will run a tad warmer than the other for various reasons, and so the fluids would be slightly different even if they started out exactly equal. As long as there's a decent volume in each and it's not spilling out, don't worry about it.

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The HPL base stocks are so finely spec'd/made that the traditional NOACK testing typically cannot discern the resultant values. Suffice it to say that they are some of the best performing oils on the market in regard to volatility resistance.

In the second 2.7L IDC video he does admit that (typical of his teardowns) there's very little known about the engine. With the proliferation of tuners these days, we don't know if the engine in this second video was abused or not. Given it's reasonably clean nature, the OCIs were probably...

Two marginal YT champs combine to make a video. Color me unimpressed. Typical click-bait; as if they know the "truth" and no one else knows a thing about the topic?