Grumpy Bear

A Bible is also a book of practical advice.... Solomon wrote at Ecclesiastes 11:1,2 Cast your bread on the waters, for after many days you will find it again. Give a share to seven or even to eight, for you do not know what disaster will occur on the earth. Again Jesus words at Luke 6:38 "Practice giving, and people will give to you. They will pour into your laps a fine measure, pressed down, shaken together, and overflowing. For with the measure that you are measuring out, they will measure out to you in return.” But according to your means, right? Paul at 2 Corinthians 10-14 notes: "And in this I give my opinion: This is for your benefit, seeing that already a year ago you not only initiated the action but also showed your desire to do it. 11 So now, also complete what you started to do, so that your readiness to act may be completed according to the means you have available.  For if the readiness is there first, it is especially acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what a person does not have.  For I do not want to make it easy for others, but difficult for you;  but that by means of an equalizing, your surplus at the present time might offset their need, so that their surplus might also offset your deficiency, that there may be an equalizing.  Just as it is written: “The person with much did not have too much, and the person with little did not have too little.”

43 F here. Calm for now. Stary stary night. I couldn't figure out why so many lights could be seen in the country. Then I realized that the 6 to 8 foot wall of corn is down and the horizon is cleaned of obstruction. WOW! We drove 50 miles SW to get a spot in a graveyard dark enough. City lights even 20 miles away kill the vibe.

50's drizzle and windy.

Drill baby drill.

https://amsoilcontent.com/ams/lit/databulletins/g3395.pdf Top copied from link below it. Question: What does AMSOIL consider an "Extended Drain Interval"? Read it slow and consult your manual. Hint: It isn't 10 to 20 K miles.

I wouldn't worry about it

In Sunday services I heard a speaker talk about a women mentioned in the Bible at Luke 2:36 named Anna. She is mentioned in only three consecutive verses. From the information in those three verses and weaving that in with known history he was able to reconstruct the most meaningful points of this woman's life with deafening probability. The major events she lived through. He husbands death circumstances. How that shaped her as evidenced in the results of her life. who she knew, what she witnesses and how it affected her entire life. He used her mentioned age and knowing the event and the time of that event. Jesus circumcision by Jewish law. It was something to hear. Point is, if you think the only facts available to you are those printed on a bottle or in a brochure you are not looking hard enough and most of what you believe to be unknowable actually is. It's just that: Some Assembly is Required I'm not selling a product. I'm promoting the idea you can know more than you think you can. Than you feel you've been given permission to know. Don't be lazy and don't be gullible. Dig. Child like wonder is as powerful as a college degree and more useful.

Two and a half barrels!!

Iron, copper, lead, aluminum, tin, nickel, chromium, titanium, vanadium and silver. What are they missing?

5,000 Mile Service Raven 2024 Mitsubishi Mirage G4 1.2 liter 3A92 triple and CVT 2,000 mile OCI 3.125 Quarts Red Line HP Euro 5W40 1 Purolator PL14610 filter

They made it right, correct? Or is it still sitting there. Don't like them? Then Circle D.

1.) Sounds like you want to keep your truck from many more miles because if you don't then personally, I'd follow @newdude's advice. It will be over 200 K by then and you will have a chance to evaluate you situation again. 2.) However, if this is the truck you take to the boneyard all used up and you hope that is a very long time from now then- Okay, you have a local you trust to do an R&R, correct? The have him buy a Remanufactured unit on a pallet from GM and use this billet converter: (Even Florida will not warranty a rebuilt factory converter, it is junk) https://www.floridatorqueconverters.com/Torque-Converter-77-JMBXSD.html Fill it with Red Line D6 or AMSOIL ATF and use the lower TBV or flip the pill. If you tow install more cooler. I expect you would have a hard time getting a GM shop to use a Florida Billet Converter AND keep the warranty but perhaps not. @newdude would know. However, you would get to keep you transmission alive. You might cringe at the price but the extra couple of hundred is way cheaper than what you are doing now, right?

Alkylated Naphthalene https://www.exxonmobilchemical.com/en/chemicals/webapi/dps/v1/datasheets/150000000338/0/en Note Pour points. Note VI and what that would mean for VM's. Note NOACK? Compare to Red Line and resolve the discrepancy. Add to above list. GTL https://www.stle.org/images/pdf/STLE_ORG/BOK/OM_OA/Base Oils/GTL Base Oils_Nov15 TLT.pdf Only 3 cSt available and that is limited in quantity.

You are quite free to do as you wish. I'll bet you could find even better use of your time than wasting it commenting on topics you have no interest in after wasting enough of it to assure yourself you had no interest in it then more to form such a witty response. Fact is, wasting time seems to be your "Thing". Go ahead, waste some more getting the last word.

Poke around in these three links then ask YOURSELF. https://assets.ctfassets.net/snhyjnum9sjq/X2rxsjFXbIaJbAJ7uWWbj/75f3fc908ccb36fd108e8e05839e238b/Motiva_Production_Latest.pdf https://www.goncordchemical.com/about-5-15 https://www.chempoint.com/products/chevron-phillips-chemical-company/synfluid-polyalphaolefins/synfluid-c10-based-paos/synfluid-c10-based-paos-10-cst Questions to answer when you've done your homework: 1.) What are the pour points of these various base oil Groups? Flash points? NOACK numbers? 100C Viscosity ranges? 2.) What relationships do you see between viscosity and NOACK? 3.) Explain to YOURSELF how one gets a Full Synthetic *W30 or heavier oil without use of an mPAO knowing that use of Group I/II oils are not allowed? 4.) If you figure out question #3 than ask YOURSELF how shear stable those oils are if the solution is the cheapest chemical crutch possible? 5.) Explain to YOURSELF how the oil below could be blended using Group III base oil. Hint: compare NOACK, Pour Point and viscosities Some Assembly Required, of typical physical properties

I can't answer your question but I laugh with you, not at you. Replaced the cabin filter in Pepper a short while ago and bruise me silly. Sore for a few days as well. Mouse nest made it take longer and remove more than normal.

Some Assembly Required You might as well ask a magician how the trick is done as to ask a blender what’s in the bottle. And I imagine that would be true if it were not for the fact that everything in the universe MUST obey the rules/laws of the universe. They are immutable. We can define our world with few exceptions or explain it in the rules of physics, chemistry and mathematics. The languages we use to make sense of what seems to be magic. The few we cannot explain only means a lack of data or a lack of understanding that data. Do I have to know the acceleration of gravity, a property of physics represented by a mathematical model, to be certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that if I walk off my roof I will fall to whatever is below me? Do I have to have a Doctorate in biology to know for certain that planting a kernel of corn will grow a plant of corn? No! Correlated observations will instruct me as to the certainty of the suns rising and setting. Observations of physical properties OR the written records of another's observations. It is what a test result is, isn’t it? The tests is just a method to objectify, quantify and correlate observations into repeatable units of observation. There is also the ‘thought experiment’ method Einstein was so fond of. One may ask, for example, can something be created from nothing? What do you conclude about our universe when you observe Entropy in action? Sometimes to understand a thing we need more than one input or observation. For example, watching the sun rise in the east and set in the west doesn’t tell you if the earth orbits the sun or the sun orbits the earth. Oh this one is important indeed. Point is, you don’t need to know all there is to know nor do your observations stand in a vacuum. Your life it short. It’s okay to use others observations and records. It’s why you hired a lab to do some of the heavy lifting. It’s why blenders publish, to one degree or another, ‘Product Data Sheets” whose contend is assured in broad strokes by regulations on “Truth in Advertising” laws. Or, internally policed by a companies need to maintain a reputation to sell into a market. It’s not perfect and cheaters get caught but it is what you have to work with. I avoid like plague the arguments of “ the act of measurement alters the measurement’ or instruments being ISO certified to the National Bureau of Standards and demanding an exact accounting of the chain of evidence. I’m not deciding the fate of a human life in open court on on a operating table, I’m finding the truth, as well as it can be known, about what products I choose to use based on my confidence in the testing, the results, the observations and the reputations of others. This means: SOME ASSEMBLY IS REQUIRED

No matter how good an oil is, it has a useful life LIMIT. Marketing and common though says that you buy a 'better' oil to save money on oil changes. Cost twice as much so I run it twice as long. That sort of thing. Following that to its rational conclusion says what you are protecting is the wallet. Not the oil, not the equipment. Not so much... Guy ought think a bit on what is meant by "BETTER" when a marketer is in control of that word. Back out of the forest and stop looking at a trees individually. With a good sized cooler and a condenser one could run tap water in a motor as a lubricant. It wont oxidize or nitrate and is a great polar solvent and yet, the though is absurd but no more so than believing base oils and base oil synergies don't matter and that the only difference between on oil and the other is the additive strategy. One Group is "Just as good" is

Don't ya jus love em to death.

This is a scenario where the knock sensor can save a motor. However there is a limit to the amount of timing it can pull. The OEM tune for 87 is less aggressive than the flash tune you put in for 91. Meaning you added timing beyond the base map and when running 87 it has to remove additional timing to get to the same place. I don't know what that limit is. Cameron likely does. He tunes.

Sounds about right.

Congratulations on the new truck. Don't ya love that new truck smell? There is about a 1.2% difference in fuel economy but about a 30% difference in wear abatement between the two oil grades. And that is assuming they stay in grade. A few years ago, I hedged the bet further switching to the Euro oils with a recommendation for Porsche C30/VW 504/507. Even these are not all created equal. I've found two that not only have the required C30/504/507 minimum 3.5 cP HTHS but beat it and have some ester in them as well to keep her clean. Red Line Euro 5W30 and AMSOIL Euro LS 5W30 (AEL). Mobil 1 ESP 5W30 will meet both the Porsche and VW viscosity specs in the bottle, but not ester bearing and given its price point, my guess would be a less stable VM polymer. It would still be an upgrade over "Energy Conserving" 2.9 HTHS 5W30 box store oils. Anyway, thoughts not recommendations on what I use in my baby.

Not as much as a new one.

264,000 Mile Service 10/22/2024 1,000-mile OCI 16 ounces of makeup. No filter 2K on it 5 Quarts Valvoline R&P 5W30 Replaced drivers side headlamp Dismounted one leaky tire. Cleaned rim and tire beads. Went crazy with the sealer. We'll see.

Dizzy 2015 GMC Terrian SLE Ecotec 2.4 I-4 1,000 mile OCI 5 Quarts Valvoline R&P 5W30