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Sure looks like Alice Cooper...

Maybe I'll go down to Cooperstown and ask
 

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Kinda. Alice is putting on the years though. He doesn't quite look like his album covers anymore.

 
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Originally Posted by VWandDodge
If it was this forum, I think I know who it was and we determined the engine had been neglected by the previous owner. Many of us are running synthetics, and for anyone to say synthetic oil won't work with hydraulic lifers makes me laugh.

In any event, it seems that the topics never to discuss with people are religion, sex, politics, and motor oil.
HeyYou, aim4squirrels when driving your Maxx Magnum. and give him his LASTRIGHTS :P
 
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I have to add some of my favorites. I am only 30 years old, but you will never see artists like this coming out.

Only 22 years old when he wrote this song. This Name one 22 year old artist NOWADAYS that can make an iconic song like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoskDZRLOCs&feature=fvw

and this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4nQB3V10i8

Those two artists are the only artists around that only need THEM and their INSTRUMENT, forget the rest of the band.
 
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Does Alice Cooper use synthetic oil in his hair? Or dino??
 
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I think it's it's the boiled down blubber of his victims.
 
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I was thinking about switching my oil over to a 10 30 from the 15 40 i use now. I can't think of a reason in the world why there would be a problem with that, as far as the engine won't run right or something, could there be? I'm paranoid about things like that...the little .01% chance of something happening will happen to me haha
 
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Originally Posted by chromed95
I was thinking about switching my oil over to a 10 30 from the 15 40 i use now. I can't think of a reason in the world why there would be a problem with that, as far as the engine won't run right or something, could there be? I'm paranoid about things like that...the little .01% chance of something happening will happen to me haha
I thought 10W30 is what you are supposed to use.
 
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Originally Posted by CPTAFW163
I thought 10W30 is what you are supposed to use.
it could be, sounds like that's what everybody uses. I've just had 15-40 stocked up on the farm and have been using it...I even put 15-40 in my '88 honda
 
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Originally Posted by cmckenna
I used to run that oil too and, I will explain why the oil is as clean as day it went in almost. The reason for that is because, there's no detergents thus, it's not cleaning your engine.

I am still a member of AMS and, I still love their products but, I went through ticking and lifter clack during the summer months with their oils. I've run 0-30, 5-30, 10-40 and 20-50 during summer use in So Cal and, it would clack like no tomorrow at startup due to oil thinning. Winter time it's not nearly as bad as summertime temps out in the desert like climates to where, that oil thins out a great deal.

I sold a case of that to a guy who owned a Chevy silverado despite warning him otherwise. He came back weeks later to my shop asking for a partial refund on the case I sold him. I already knew what issues he had experienced but proceeded to ask him what happened.

Under high loading and under triple digit heat out in So Cal desert, he experienced lifter collapse and loss of oil pressure. He was towing up the 15 freeway over the Cajon Pass and had to pull over and stop. It was clacking like a diesel he said. The oil was changed out back over to Dino SAE 40 for the summer months and all was fine after that.

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Like i mentioned in the other post the first two changes the oil was black. This tells me its doing some cleaning. Third change about 15k it wasnt as black so iam like its getting cleaner with this stuff plus the ticking is almost gone. The knock isnt as bad but its still running which i have to contribute to this Amsoil oil.
 



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