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#14
You can (or at least might) get further between oil changes with a bypass oil filter, either the sort used on diesels or even a Frantz "toilet paper" filter. (You don't need the chemicals diesels need, BTW.) My idiot father bought a used Winnebago way back when that had a Frantz filter on it, and even pushing that big box of a rig around the oil that came out of the 318 was much cleaner looking than the stuff that came out of the 318 that originally came in my Coronet. The drained oil looked pretty close to new, but the TP roll that came out of the Frantz unit was black.
I don't know why I haven't thought of Frantz filters in so many years... I might just plumb one in for the giggle factor if for no other reason.
#16
at least once every 300k miles, you should pull the drive shaft(s), and exchange the air inside of them.. they become stale and corrosive.. do this by dunking them in water, ensuring they are completely submerged for at least ten-fifteen seconds..
by following this simple procedure, you've ensured your shafts will last you the life of the vehicle, and possibly until the Mayan prophecies come to fruition..
by following this simple procedure, you've ensured your shafts will last you the life of the vehicle, and possibly until the Mayan prophecies come to fruition..
#18
You might want to engage the services of one of those oil testing outfits for your testing, so you can quantify the matter. We change our motor oil as often as we do due to the contaminant load it's carrying rather than some organic decomposition of the oil itself. The oil's black when we drain it from the microscopic particles of ash that have got past the rings and which are small enough to pass right through the filter, the detergent additive is carrying water around, the sulfur in suspension in the oil is reacting with that water to make sulfuric acid... it's ugly soup.
You can (or at least might) get further between oil changes with a bypass oil filter, either the sort used on diesels or even a Frantz "toilet paper" filter. (You don't need the chemicals diesels need, BTW.) My idiot father bought a used Winnebago way back when that had a Frantz filter on it, and even pushing that big box of a rig around the oil that came out of the 318 was much cleaner looking than the stuff that came out of the 318 that originally came in my Coronet. The drained oil looked pretty close to new, but the TP roll that came out of the Frantz unit was black.
I don't know why I haven't thought of Frantz filters in so many years... I might just plumb one in for the giggle factor if for no other reason.
You can (or at least might) get further between oil changes with a bypass oil filter, either the sort used on diesels or even a Frantz "toilet paper" filter. (You don't need the chemicals diesels need, BTW.) My idiot father bought a used Winnebago way back when that had a Frantz filter on it, and even pushing that big box of a rig around the oil that came out of the 318 was much cleaner looking than the stuff that came out of the 318 that originally came in my Coronet. The drained oil looked pretty close to new, but the TP roll that came out of the Frantz unit was black.
I don't know why I haven't thought of Frantz filters in so many years... I might just plumb one in for the giggle factor if for no other reason.
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