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Scratching my head on this one. I have a 1997 Camaro with the LT1 350 engine. When the outside temp is below deg. F. or so the car idles rough until it warms up. I cleaned the ICS pintle and throttle plate and ran fuel system/injector cleaner/top end decarbon stuff through it and no change...

After running a can of 44K through my car and expecting to be unimpressed, I wasn't unimpressed, I was astounded. Thinking about a can of MOA now

So I thought I'd post one. I have a bypass filter and the oil (Havoline 10w40)now has 5K mi. on it. I was surprised at how dark it has turned in that time. Blotter tests show very little solids (ring) but I was still wondering about the color. 5K seemed like a good time for an analysis and see...

The May-June issue of "Practicing Oil Analysis" magazine has an article about spin on filters that are combination full flow/bypass units if anybody is interested. Apparently there is an internal bypass valve that produces enough back pressure to direct some oil to the bypass unit much like...

Does anybody know which wears out faster, upper control arms and ball joints or lower? Seems to me I remember that one wears out faster than the other but I can't remember which-is it lower?

What is the difference between these two units? in pictures they look the same.

I decided to stock up on the old formula Havoline for my Camaro 350 LT1 and inadvertently bought two jubs of 10w40 instead of 10w30 like I intended. Don't really know anything about 10x40 oil-amI ok on this? Seems like i remember that the stuff shears down to 10w30 after a while anyway. This is...

I tried using one of my old oil soaked TP rolls as a fireplace starter last night and it worked very well. The roll had drained as much as it was ever going to, could be lit with a match and did not flare up or leak burning liquid. It put a column of flame about the size and shape of the roll...

I'm mystified. I've had this car (1997 Chev. Z28 Camaro) since 2000 and have done some oil analysis on it sporatically. Initially it had Penzoil and looked fine. I changed to Mobil 1 and lead levels really went up. Blackstone said they had seen this before. I stayed with Mobil one and lead...

I recently bought and started using a really old Frantz filter. Since I tapped into an oil gallery in the block and returned to the pan, it was obvious that there needed to be a restriction. Not knowing exactly what to do, I put a piece of copper sheet with a nail hole in it inside the flange...

The wife got a new car, a Honda Civic LX which our first car with an oil life monitor. At 600 mi. the oil life monitor is at 90% which means if driving habits stay the same, we are looking at about a 6K change interval. Interestingly we were assured by the dealer to follow the OLM for changes so...

I usually do a blotter spot test every other tank of gas to see what is what. This car is a Chevy 350 that is driven twice a day, ordinarily, just long enough to warm up and probably once a week for longer. Between the first and second sample, i went on a road trip and drove at highway speed for...

I've been chasing this thing over a year and I finally fixed it. I had an eratic mis at idle, worse with the ac on that has been bedeviling me. There was a low throttle studder on takeoff that got better with heavier acceleration. I finally put the Autotap scanner on and monitored each cylinger...

Just thought I'd toss this out to see if anybody has any ideas. I have an LT1 Camaro 350, 1997. A few weeks ago it set a code for an EGR valve and a new EGR valve fixed the problem. I don't think the two events were related but now I have a slight miss under light acceleration. Amazingly the...

I hear a lot of talk about such and such an oil makes my car run quieter, noiser, etc. so I thought I'd do an experiment. I've been running Mobil one 10w30 for the last 6K mi (one yr.)and had decided to change to Havoline 10w30 and I wondered if the engine would sound any different. Here is the...

For no particular reason my antique Franz started leaking yesterday and poured oil out all over the concrete on the way into the garage. I tightened the bolts (it is the really old style with a canister held on by a bottom plate and two knurreled nuts-which I replaced with 7/16 nylock nuts). A...

My son asked me a question and I don't know the answer-maybe someone here will. Did anyone ever make a solid state voltage regulator for a generator? All the ones I ever had were completely mechanical. I vaguely remember something about MOPARS having one that worked on a pulse modulated basis...

I got this off a diesel forum years ago but I just got around to trying it today. Stick a shop vac in the oil filler cap and when you pull the drain plug, the oil won't come out until you turn the vac off. When the oil is really hot, it certainly makes a safer and cleaner way to drain the oil.

Item #8015159456. Don't see those very often.

If you put the bypass filter in line with the cooler, you aren't going to get much flow which would negate the usefullness of the cooler. I would suggest paralleling the filter with the oil cooler itself. That way the pressure differential from the input to the output of the oil cooler will...