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My understanding is that if you interrupt a regen by shutting the truck off, it will pick up where it left off on the next run cycle. My experience is regen events usually take place over 10-20 miles when they occur.

Sounds like I need to pick me up a thermal bypass and 1-2 quarts of ULV for a quick little project. Is Valvoline ULV acceptable, or do I need to find the AcDelco brand ULV?

Who said it, Trump, or an 80 year old in severe cognitive decline? We went into rural parts of the country and fixed people’s water. They were drinking such terrible water. We were — it was very important to me. All of that’s important. At the same time, you can’t give up your country. You can’t say that we’re not going to have any jobs anymore. If they said — if they took their ultimate, which is $93 trillion, the Green New Deal, $93 trillion, that’s more money than we would have in 20 years. We wouldn’t be able to survive. We wouldn’t be able to live. So I always feel that with the climate, and I have been a great — I have been an environmentalist. I built many things. I own Doral right next door, and we did that in a very environment. I get awards, environmental awards for the way I built it, for the water, the way I use the water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water. I mean, many different — but I’ve had many awards over the years for environmental, the way I’ve built. Because you know about building, that’s what you do.

It's not free will if the "choice" is to love Jesus and the alternative is to burn in eternal hell. Again, sounds like a really bad domestic situation, just another violent, evil-spirited, jealous narcissist preying on the emotionally weak. It's no wonder so many guys identify with him.

I prefer the rear HDMI ports over what appears to be a copy of a C4 ZR1 exhaust tips on a pickup. No doubt the new engines will be great. Not excited that the interior appears to favor a giant open billboard screen for the instrument cluster versus the nicely inset and shrouded cluster the trucks have today. The rear window appears to be fixed, it's a one-piece rear glass design with a portal for the center opening section like the Fords have. It's probably more cost effective to build that way, too. Going from a 327 back to a 350 or 400 V8 should make a lot of the oldtimers happy

False. This "god" you speak of doesn't exist. You are of course welcome to believe in whatever fairytale you wish. You're just going to have to let it go, and since the topic was just re-opened by a moderator, I doubt they wished for you to bring up religion.

That surprises me a little, and is different from what I've experienced. I'd think the opposite. User-applied RTV tends to be inconsistent and messy, so in a service setting I'd think it would add additional time and higher failure/customer comebacks even when using something with a quick set time--it's still not instant, is it? All the differential covers on my modern vehicles use a reusable gasket or one-time use gasket, but no RTV. Allison transmission pans on a motorhome and former pickup of mine, both were gaskets. Water necks, surprised I didn't find RTV, those were gaskets too. Why RTV? What's the advantage?

Learned something new today. Really?

Looking at the Banks pan, I'd have the same questions. It appears to be significantly higher quality, though, also a bit more expensive at $429? I don't see myself buying either. I won't be towing often or off-roading, AND, both of those pans apparently require sealant with RTV? The Banks pan says it protects against RTV beading and breaking off in the pan, but I'd still consider that a risk. The factory pan uses a one-piece gasket, does it not? IMO that would be much better.

I looked at a PPE pan because I just bought a new Trail Boss with the 3.0 and was like, hey, cool, what is PPE and what do they make for our trucks? Here's what I gathered: -The stock pan is basically thin sheet metal. This isn't concerning to me, personally, but would be IF I planned to regularly wheel the truck / take it where high clearance is needed. However, I'm not sure if cast aluminum (PPE pan) is a better choice to safeguard against impact than a softer malleable steel / stock pan. IMO, modifying shape of the pan is preferable to cracking the cast and having all the oil leak out. -The stock pan supposedly retains ~1/2 quart of oil even after it's fully drained through the plug opening. They say this is a potential collection point for sludge and that the oil there doesn't get filtered. My thought: Well, don't let sludge accumulate in the first place, and the oil probably does get filtered. But no, you don't get a full drain out of the stock drain opening. This could be helped by suctioning the remaining oil; OR, determing a root cause for why 1/2 quart remains in the oil. Is this done for any scientific reason? -PPE offers additional sump capacity, 9.5 quarts over the stock 7.0 quart. While I don't believe this warrants any extended drain interval, it may help existing oil cooling capacity and provide additional cushion/safeguard for the protective properties and detergents of the oil during the same interval. It comes with a wallet-reducing mod for sure...$329 on the PPE website, with a total of 3 reviews. Hmm.

I generally loathe reading AI pastes, but I scanned to look for this specifically, and I think it's a nonstarter. If traditional diesel is already mid-$3's to $5's depending on region, I don't think anyone has an appetite for even higher fuel prices which could contribute to overall inflation - or any issues around supply scarcity, in the event of a wholesale switch to synthetic fuels... But it's good info. The V8 being more cost effective versus inline makes sense too. I have doubts about it competing with others in the space though, specifically Cummins, Detroit.

Doesn't higher compression and higher combustion temperatures = more complete combustion, and a reduction in waste gases? And why still a V8 versus inline?

TFL survives on clicks and views. Anything they can do to get you to engage. Not that they don't have some decent content, but, they usually know as much as everybody else in the content creator space. OE's aren't confiding in them. Does GM do appreciable volume with its Medium duty trucks? I always see them sitting on dealer lots, sometimes 1-2 model years old, still sold as new, just severely aged inventory. I guess I don't see where an updated 6.6 wouldn't also serve their medium duty line. Why a bigger Duramax? And wouldn't an inline application start to make sense versus a V8? Cummins basically owns that medium duty space with its inline diesels, 6.7- L9

Diesel is still high 4's to 5.00/gallon here in the Northwest. Where the hell is my $1.00/gallon diesel

This gray? On something the size of the Silverado it looks fairly drab, in my opinion. But so does silver, and nonmetallic colors are still fairly rare, so I can see why people might be drawn to them. It's something different. . Jeep was doing a flat gray for a while, which I think kind of fits with the motif. Wranglers are small enough not to be a billboard of flat color. Red accents definitely help, in my opinion. You used to see grays with red accents/trim highlights back in the 80's and I always thought it was a good mix. The one that befuddles me are the flat tans. So, we go from primer gray with clearcoat, to military tan with clearcoat. GM offered a bunch of cars back in the 70's and 80's in a similar color. I always thought they were vomitrocious. The color earned the nicknames of "bisque", "mannequin", "prosthetic beige" in enthusiast circles over the years. But, I guess people think it's cool to drive around in military-esque vehicles. The trend of flat black also escapes me. Primered aftermarket body panels, anyone? Even when the car is painted professionally in flat black, it's a nightmare to maintain. I believe Toyota once offered it on some cars in its Scion lineup and quickly rescinded it due to complaints. But...variety in the automotive world is a good thing, and so is a wide variety of choices. What might not be my cup of tea might be someone else's favorite. I agree GM has struggled as of late to offer a lot of good choices. Most regrettably on the Silverado, a blue that isn't an eye-popping shade of Smurf. Can we have Northsky Blue back, please? No offering of a metallic black, just black now, I believe the Slate Gray is gone. Cypress gray is more green IMO, also nonmetallic. And who wants to pay for a color choice other than white? But here we are...

Yep. There are no alternative facts. Just lies. Seek what is real.

The reason I posted "Hasta Luego" (Spanish: See you later) after he told us to go f*** ourselves is because he'll probably be back, not strong enough to actually stand for what he says he believes in. In fact, he was signed in last night probably looking for some kind of vindication. It's not a damn airport...don't need to announce your departure OR arrival because....nobody cares

Jesus is weeping.

Good. And don't come crawling back.

Sounds pretty gay to me. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But you should read your own book you claim. We know you're "Christian" because like vegans and crossfitters, you have to tell everyone about it. The book says don't f*** poor people (like...with tariffs and making basic things cost more) and don't jail/torture the immigrants, don't diddle the children. Pretty simple to avoid, but, HERE WE ARE....