"I went with the Havoline."
Sitting in the shanty, reveling in the much-less-humidity-laden breeze wafting through, along with temps almost 20-degrees less than what we experienced lately, watching the CBS national news broadcast chock-full of info snippets that inform of so little but hoping to attract enough eyes to make the advertising pay all the salaries, the overhead, and, perhaps, a profit for those in a position to receive that profit, I nod my hair-covered head in agreement with your decision.
I would likely have done the same.... based upon some sordid gut feeling, a subjective decision that the Havoline may perform some function even a wee bit mo' better than the udder stuff.
Besides, what the tuna casserole, it's only a couple bucks more. 200 little pennies, 20 dimes, 8 lousy quarters. Sure is handy having our monetary system based upon units of 10. 5 times better than binary? Anything's better than hexadecimal...that stuff makes the hairy head hurt horrendously and I refuse to use it.
Good luck getting the accumulated crud removed from the engine. After the current load of Havoline is removed I believe I will switch to synthetic 24-7-28/29/30/31-365. Yep, year-round synthetic use.
Perhaps one or more of the resident sages can recommend the "best" syntetic out of all those available. The engine is a 2004 4.8L Vortec V8 Chevy bolted to an auto tranny. Towing when I rent a U-Maul trailer. No off-road use. More cold than heat to contend with. Not a "hot rodder." Not looking for the longest OCI (pesky acronyms...feel as if I'm back at FLEASWTRACENPAC before joining DesRon23, part of ComCruDesPac, and off to WesPac where we performed a FleetEx doing the ASW/AAW thing with SSNs, CVs,CGs,DDs,DEGs,and a whole bunch of acronym-laden entities).
I think I need a nap now.
Will return, akin to Dugout Doug McArthur, to peer at the suggestions for the bestest synthetic for my engine. Oh, if it matters, been using Mobil 1 5W-30 and plain boring non-synthetic Havoline 5W-30 for the past two years, depending upon climatic conditions.
Any input appreciated. Been reading the various opinions for a loooong time (lurked quite awhile before eeeeeek, enlisting to the site) but it IS so hard to make a final decision. I'm hoping one or more of the fine folks frolicking here will have direct experience with lubricating the Generation 3 Vortec engine. A Hot Rod magazine article tore a 5.3 Gen. 3 apart to see what made it tick and noted the closer internal tolerances than V8s of the past.
Okay, off to see what's begging to be eaten in the fridge.
Sitting in the shanty, reveling in the much-less-humidity-laden breeze wafting through, along with temps almost 20-degrees less than what we experienced lately, watching the CBS national news broadcast chock-full of info snippets that inform of so little but hoping to attract enough eyes to make the advertising pay all the salaries, the overhead, and, perhaps, a profit for those in a position to receive that profit, I nod my hair-covered head in agreement with your decision.
I would likely have done the same.... based upon some sordid gut feeling, a subjective decision that the Havoline may perform some function even a wee bit mo' better than the udder stuff.
Besides, what the tuna casserole, it's only a couple bucks more. 200 little pennies, 20 dimes, 8 lousy quarters. Sure is handy having our monetary system based upon units of 10. 5 times better than binary? Anything's better than hexadecimal...that stuff makes the hairy head hurt horrendously and I refuse to use it.
Good luck getting the accumulated crud removed from the engine. After the current load of Havoline is removed I believe I will switch to synthetic 24-7-28/29/30/31-365. Yep, year-round synthetic use.
Perhaps one or more of the resident sages can recommend the "best" syntetic out of all those available. The engine is a 2004 4.8L Vortec V8 Chevy bolted to an auto tranny. Towing when I rent a U-Maul trailer. No off-road use. More cold than heat to contend with. Not a "hot rodder." Not looking for the longest OCI (pesky acronyms...feel as if I'm back at FLEASWTRACENPAC before joining DesRon23, part of ComCruDesPac, and off to WesPac where we performed a FleetEx doing the ASW/AAW thing with SSNs, CVs,CGs,DDs,DEGs,and a whole bunch of acronym-laden entities).
I think I need a nap now.
Will return, akin to Dugout Doug McArthur, to peer at the suggestions for the bestest synthetic for my engine. Oh, if it matters, been using Mobil 1 5W-30 and plain boring non-synthetic Havoline 5W-30 for the past two years, depending upon climatic conditions.
Any input appreciated. Been reading the various opinions for a loooong time (lurked quite awhile before eeeeeek, enlisting to the site) but it IS so hard to make a final decision. I'm hoping one or more of the fine folks frolicking here will have direct experience with lubricating the Generation 3 Vortec engine. A Hot Rod magazine article tore a 5.3 Gen. 3 apart to see what made it tick and noted the closer internal tolerances than V8s of the past.
Okay, off to see what's begging to be eaten in the fridge.
