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Ill know when i grease next, one way to find out. I do know i do like the lockable tip, but it is a pain doing the top 3 so i had to put the normal tip on. I will probably get a longer hose for my grease gun, as it will make greasing the camper suspension and pickup easier. I have/like the 2 handed gun vs the hand pump style. An old timer lineman used to say... ( hard telllin, not knowenn ) Old New Hampshire boy.

I dug and found my slip over style head for my grease gun i used to have to use for greasing the gimble barring on a boat i had. Not sure what they are called other than special heads, from my quick search. Is slips over the head at a 90 degree side angle, so might make greasing the 3 hard to get ones easier, might not. Might work good on all 9, one way to find out. Next time i grease ill do a thread with pics if it helps ease the job, as head to head is a pain for the,,, again, 3 hard mid ones. I dont drop anything, just reach up and fight the suckers.

I knew you would show up. Your attracted to oil and filter threads like a moth to a flame.. It is very good, of you to show up as well.

It hit me later, that the oil used in the subaru was 0-20, as called for.

Im sure the oil is fine. There are a lot of well running subarus. I havent even looked into what the heck gen 1 dextros 3 means. ha ha. My only point was it gets ugly on some oil threads and or filter threads, so thats why i mentioned it. I dont really care as long as its good oil and a good filter. For my needs. Heck, i use a reusable oil filter and have since first change. Laying under isnt fun, i will do it as long as i can. First oil change got a fumoto drain plug, its slower, but easy and very clean for me. The filter on the 6.6 gasser seems easy compared to other motors to get to on and off. Its very close to the drain plug. Has anyone greased the 9 zirks/urks/fittings on the front end yet? I know mine didnt seem to have been greased by the dealer when i got it. The 3 on each side arent bad, its the 3 upper ones that are a bit to get to and grease.

I have done multiple oil changes for someone with a 2023 subaru. From my search the oil specs are still the same for a 2024. And say nothing about gen 1 dex 3 for being the spec of oil. So why would a subaru dealer carry that oil? Otherwise of course it would be fine if meeting specs. . The OP said nothing about the GM dealer supplying the oil, but did mention a non GM filter. I dont care, but usually lots of people do.

Im surprised no one is yet screaming that voided the warranty, with a non GM filter and subaru dont use the same oil gen 1 dextros 3.

Might want to go to another dealer and try different oil types, just for the heck of it. over 20,000 miles on my 2024 6.6.gasser and no notable oil use towing or empty per oil changes.

Back to emissionish. There is a crapload of campers in the concrete jungle resort im in right now, that resemble,, same as the original post, so must be popular. Probably 50/50 gas/diesel. It would be an interesting study, by a neutral group of taking one of each, same rig, same trips, same driving style and such, as close as possible and see the results of the carbon footprint, maybe even toss in a couple older gas and diesel ones before emissions on diesels. Gas vs diesel output of pollutants. Just like my recent diesel pickup and now my new 2024 3500 cheby, the fuel usage empty or towing is different and should be because of the energy per ounce diesel vs gasoline, vs ethanol gasoline. What one per mile puts out more emissions to do a job of moving empty or loaded. I have wondered since my second diesel as it was dpf and def of course egr. Ram started def in 2013, im not up on the others. Most important, would be a neutral study.

That seems correct. I just went back to the 2024 brake controller problem thread. SO, when i said TROLL i was right.

Ok, first, ( by no means am i currently ) with this post of a joke, poking at ( anyone ) its a joke. I have told this joke to many engineers, i have mechanical and electrical engineer friends, they may be broken, because we get along, but thats besides the point.. what i have found, by the response/data,, is it separates the down to earth ones from the ones that put themselves above others. 3 people sentenced to death by guillotine. A lawyer, priest and engineer. The executioner takes the priest, lays him down, puts the hood over his head, positions the basket and pulls the rope. Shhhhunkk, it stops right before it cuts his head off. The executioner sais,,,, no way, thats an act of god, your free to go. Now the executioner takes the lawyer, lays him down, puts the hood over his head, positions the basket, and pulls the rope. Shhhunkk, it stops,, again,, again he sais, its an act of god, your free to go. Now,,, all flustered, as things arent going as planned. He takes the engineer, lays him down, positions the basket, forgot to put the hood over his head,, grabs the rope, and just before he pulls the rope the engineer opens his eyes and sais, ( thats your problem there, there is a snag in the rope.

I was thinking the same thing. But wondering if they might be a couple also. ALL the ( data ) i am gathering hear, is brad bill and bruceb58 are the same person or sleeping together. Defiantly/definitely, put them selfs above the working class person, as well as very, very, politically NOT happy right now. Does brad bill even have a ( gm pickup/truck? Certainly hasnt posted anything about the original post/topic.

A couple things. 1, please fill out your information, do you even have a GM you must be in one of those states, by your political posts, so why not be proud of it and post your location. 2, And wrong again. One reason inganeers hated linemen, is we made more money than them. I retired going on 8 years ago at age 53 with 32 years working being a lineman. I have yet to meet an inganeer that retired the same. Stand between 34,500 volts and change a 3 phase pole with a 3 phase buck over and not blow your head of and tell me im unskilled. 3, I know what an inganeer knows, just dont need to use the fancy wording to explain or talk about it. BUT, i can build it and maintain it without an inganeer or management. I can explain power factor to someone off the street and they will understand it, done it many times. Do you have any idea, what it takes to add more power to a street, let alone a country mandated to go electric. Are you skilled in running larger wire to be converted to a higher voltage alongside hot wires, because it cant be shut off to add power because the load/demand has grown??? Then remove the old wire and equipment, all hot not blowing your head off? What are you skilled at?? There is absolutely no information other than you limited post count. That seems to be politically driven and the rest shooting from the hip.

I world NEVER compare a lineman to an inganear. You seem to only see what you want to, not the truth... What is needed more in todays wet dream of forcing electric on everyone. Electrical inganeers, or lineman to do the work?

Being a electrical lineman, what looked good on paper/the computer, to those like an engineer,, often times didnt always work in the real world. My line world, of having to build it, maintain it, put it back together after a storm, working on things hot looks a lot easier on paper than in the real world. Take a simple thing like ( delta ) what you first think of when reading it, is not the same as myself.

I let it do its thing, i dont use tow haul. In normal drive pending on resistance of speed/wind i can speed up a little then it will up shift and hold there, if it dont like it, it downshifts. The transmission is smart, it wont let the motor lug or anything.

36 gallons in the pig and 45 gallon transfer tank in the bed. The diesel i had a 100 gallon transfer tank, plumbed into the filler neck. Not so with a gasser. My regular cab diesel just like a regular cab chevy diesel have 28 gallon tanks because of the def tank. So distance to empty towing or empty is still about the same gasser from past diesel. Without a in the bed tank.

My first long tow hear for the winter in south Texas, mid on the gulf coast. About 1,600 miles 3 nights 4 days travel from up north so about 400 miles a day, avoiding interstate if possible, so secondary roads, speeds 55-66... Day 1 8.2mpg, day 2 8.4mpg, day 3 8.4mpg, day 4 nearing the coast and more wind, 7.7mpg. About 9,500lbs I can see getting 6mpg on a bad day and odds are never hitting 10, but its a gasser, and gas has less energy per ounce than diesel so im ok with that. I just love the simplicity of no turbo and diesel related emissions stuff. The gasser is perfect for short stop and go trips, vs the diesel.

Being up north for last winter, i noticed the cold and winter blend fuel/gasoline was less mpg than when it warmed up and summer blend came out. My diesel lost a solid 2mpg with winter blend, that wasnt even including extra warm up time to be nice to the motor and not blow the head gasket.

I love to experiment and when up north its flat my driving rural routs the same. I did 2 tanks of 91 octane and its non ethanol, i gained 1-1.5 mpg more, not enough to justify the cost, motor sounded and acted the same. I did more than 2 tanks of non ethanol 87 and gained 1.5-2 mpg solid. All this is/was tank to tank. The non ethanol was a 40 mile out of my way trip to get it, first time was cheaper than normal hometown ethanol 87 then was more the next times. So not worth the extra cost, but ethanol gets worse mpg's in my 2024 6.6 gasser. The motor sounds and acts the same on any of the 3 fuels. Just seems with my first hand experiments that it really likes non ethanol 87 as far as best fuel economy goes. I went to visit a friend from northern MN to just below St Louie MO, just getting off the same interstate, same direction of travel same speed, right away i could tell i was out of ethanol areas, upon filling up and resting the trip. My hand calculating empty and towing are about spot on on my rig vs the dash reading.

Ill post 2 pictures, the first is my past ram in Arizona in between Wickenburg Surprise. Notice the smog in the background from the west coast. The second is my home area up north in Minnesota, notice no smog................. More people in one area, more pollution.

Can you imagine this on battery power, a combine and the biggest tractor JD currently makes. Both take DEF fluid.............................

I still belong to a ram cummins forum. A younger guy lives in Alaska and works for a wind mill farm company. The pictures and reality are amazing. Lots of maintenance. What is the cost to ship full scale huge windmills as well as replacement parts to Alaska. The truth of there is or isnt a profit for it would be nice. Add in the blades need replacing at some point. Each windmill will have a large green box at the base, that box is a 3 phase transformer, converting the lower produced power to higher power then underground wire to a central place to put into the grid. I have had to deal with people face to face wile working for the man. There solar equipment and some have battery storage, is sensitive to wanting a near perfect voltage to put back into the grid, via through the meter then to the transformer then the line. Each electric company has a low and a high residential and or commercial voltage they must meet or keep. AT times the solar is out of its range, wile the company is within its range. So the solar kicks out putting back in, the customer is PIZZZED and i get/got to give the bad news. Things get a little fragile today in the diesel world. What happens if DEF fluid is in short demand? Even construction and farm equipment has def now. I see the corn industry first hand up north. Fields and fields of corn for ethanol. How is it profitable? Prep field in spring, plant it, spray it with roundup at least 2 times, harvest it, store or haul it in, has to be hauled in to the elevator at some point. Needs to be tilled up, better than just grain or soybeans, so that takes more energy. I have one place 40 miles away with non ethanol fuel up north. It costs more for non ethanol, i also get a solid 1.5-2mpg better fuel mileage with non ethanol 87 in my 6.6 gasser.

I find the electrical part of discussions and or mandates to be lacking in full detail. Being a retired electrical lineman, i know a little about demand and what is involved in staying up with electrical demand, as well as reliability. I did my working for the man time on the east coast, NH then PA, then left the east coast. Originally, and i go back for the summers, im from way, way upper MN to the left side near ND, it gets cold in the winter, gets cold fast in the fall, stays late in the spring, so electric powered batterie things, dont like very cold. Using an all electric car, using heat and needing it to move, would use lots of power, but the batteries dont like cold. Most people dont get the truth, or care. Solar panels and wind mill blades have a usable life span. Actually a nuclear plant also has a usable life span. People like underground, but most dont know that primary underground has a usable lifespan then its no good. Overhead wires last almost forever, the poles or supports dont but are easy to replace vs underground wires. There was an article i read a few years ago, of California needing to replace solar panels as they reached there life span. The problem comes when California has a law not letting certain things in the land fill, and that being the solar panels that are being replaced. So, it was said they went to New Mexico to a land fill. Sounds fair right, create garbage and dump it on another. ( other states also have stuff needing disposal but cant be disposed there ) I am all for better ways and rentable energy. Not all renewable energy is cost effective or not creating waist, they just leave that part out. As well as solar and wind, dont work without sun or wind, so there is still a need of providing power in the dark or non windy, or extremely windy days. Hear is a picture of used wind mill blades in a spot near the ND and MN boarder in ND about 50 miles from the Canadian boarder. Just sitting there. Like normal, near there, no wind mills, just the junk from them.

Not sure on all, rams. But my custom ordered 2015 2500 regular cab with the 6.7 cummins was. Well built fit and finish. I was in PA still at that time. It came by rail to somewhere in Jersey that was no more than 100 miles from the dealer. Basic ware items, but like any other brand diesel, used as a grocery getter, sooner or later will come emissions problems. And i did have emissions problems because of it. Its nice and simple under warranty, but gets expensive quick not under warranty. Its the reason i went with my currant cheby gasser HD for my needs. And, it stopped being Dodge in 2009, its Ram from there on. For the pickups/trucks/