New truck break-in

[NWI Denali]

4 hours ago, BlancoSilverado said:

For Break-in I follow the baby rule. I plan on keeping this truck for 20+ years. 

 

Change the oil engine oil at 500,1000,2000,5000, then 5000 miles from then on. 

try to keep it under 3,000RPM for the first 500miles.

NO TOWING for 2,000 miles

 

I also will be doing;

Change the diff fluid at 10,000,30,000, then every 30k after.

Trans at 30,000,60,000,90,000.....

 

Incredible waste of money on all those fluids, but if it makes you sleep easier at night, I suppose it's worth it to you.

[Grumpy Bear]

I go out for the day and put a couple hundred more on Pepper then give her a bath. Come home and find nothing but opinions and ridicule. 

 

5 hours ago, KARNUT said:

 But unfortunately the electronics will go and the emissions probably will put them in the junk yard first. 

I remember hearing this exact same swill in the early 70's about carburetors and distributors. Wait!!! Holley and Mallory are still in business. Hum...………...………. 

 

 

 

 

 

[KARNUT]

I go out for the day and put a couple hundred more on Pepper then give her a bath. Come home and find nothing but opinions and ridicule. 
 
I remember hearing this exact same swill in the early 70's about carburetors and distributors. Wait!!! Holley and Mallory are still in business. Hum...………...………. 
 
 
 
 
 

My family own a salvation yard for about ten years. Nearly 1/2 of the vehicles drove in costing too much to passed inspection. Some still looked pretty good. The other half were wrecked. That was a fun time for a young KARNUT.


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[Grumpy Bear]

3 hours ago, bshort said:

Absolutely unnecessary.  Not even remotely sound advice.  

I missed it. Where is the fact in this statement? 

Your going to ridicule with opinion?

Really?
Kids do that right?

[Grumpy Bear]

12 minutes ago, KARNUT said:

My family own a salvation yard for about ten years. Nearly 1/2 of the vehicles drove in costing too much to passed inspection. Some still looked pretty good. The other half were wrecked. That was a fun time for a young KARNUT.


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Our family garbage picked that yard and are still driving them. 

 

Dad just sold my sisters Oldsmobile Aurora yesterday. $5,500. Car looks new yet and has 360,000 miles on that little 3800. Uses no oil and needs nothing. 

 

A few years back he traded his C10 with an iron 4.3 in it to buy the Silverado he has now. That one had 700,000 on the clock. Solid top to bottom. No rust. One timing chain and a few water pumps. Still original 10 bolt rear and 4L automatic. Shop used it as their parts chaser for another 300,000 to sent her to action. 

 

He's sold and bought back an 04 Buick Lesaber three times now. Someone buys it. They get nervous over the miles and he buys it back at a discount. Takes it on a vacation then sells it again. Kid you not people pay him to drive that thing and it looks like a front row used car on any premium lot. Getting close to 300,000 miles. Just bought it back again a few months ago.

Had enough money right side up he had the transmission rebuilt. Last guy said is shifted funny sometimes. That one uses no oil. Another 3800 series II. Seriously I think he's far enough ahead on this one to say the lot paid him to take it. 

 

My favorite one was a 66 Ford Custom he bough new. Drove it 100K and sold it to my cousin. Butch put 200K more VERY hard miles on that 390 and sold it back to dad. Dad drove it about three more years, another 100K and sold it to a workmate. Miller drove it another 100 K and gave it to his daughter to drive back and forth to college. She got it to 800K and hit a dump truck with it. The pulled the driveline and put it in dads 65 Ford F100 where he put another 5 years on it, sold it and lost track of it. 

When that motor had about 20 K on the clock it broke an oil pump drive shaft and he drove it home with nothing but splash. Dropped the pan, changed pump and drive and buttoned it back up. Welded a retainer to the valve stem at 350 K. Trop Artic 10W30 on 2K OCI's forever. 

 

I can tell you what he doesn't do. Think over servicing them is a waste of time and money. 

 

Now after all these years he's on a Super Tech kick and muleing another Buick for 15K OCI's. He's 91. Nothing better to do I guess. 

[KARNUT]

Our family garbage picked that yard and are still driving them. 

 

Dad just sold my sisters Oldsmobile Aurora yesterday. $5,500. Car looks new yet and has 360,000 miles on that little 3800. Uses no oil and needs nothing. 
 
A few years back he traded his C10 with an iron 4.3 in it to buy the Silverado he has now. That one had 700,000 on the clock. Solid top to bottom. No rust. One timing chain and a few water pumps. Still original 10 bolt rear and 4L automatic. Shop used it as their parts chaser for another 300,000 to sent her to action. 
 
He's sold and bought back an 04 Buick Lesaber three times now. Someone buys it. They get nervous over the miles and he buys it back at a discount. Takes it on a vacation then sells it again. Kid you not people pay him to drive that thing and it looks like a front row used car on any premium lot. Getting close to 300,000 miles. Just bought it back again a few months ago.
Had enough money right side up he had the transmission rebuilt. Last guy said is shifted funny sometimes. That one uses no oil. Another 3800 series II. Seriously I think he's far enough ahead on this one to say the lot paid him to take it. 
 
My favorite one was a 66 Ford Custom he bough new. Drove it 100K and sold it to my cousin. Butch put 200K more VERY hard miles on that 390 and sold it back to dad. Dad drove it about three more years, another 100K and sold it to a workmate. Miller drove it another 100 K and gave it to his daughter to drive back and forth to college. She got it to 800K and hit a dump truck with it. The pulled the driveline and put it in dads 65 Ford F100 where he put another 5 years on it, sold it and lost track of it. 
When that motor had about 20 K on the clock it broke an oil pump drive shaft and he drove it home with nothing but splash. Dropped the pan, changed pump and drive and buttoned it back up. Welded a retainer to the valve stem at 350 K. Trop Artic 10W30 on 2K OCI's forever. 
 
I can tell you what he doesn't do. Think over servicing them is a waste of time and money. 
 
Now after all these years he's on a Super Tech kick and muleing another Buick for 15K OCI's. He's 91. Nothing better to do I guess. 

Emission inspection is pretty brutal around here. Check engine light you fail. This was the 90s. May be better now.


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[Grumpy Bear]

 

Check engine light gets a 'fix it' response  not a drive to the dump response. You getting soft in your old age? 

 

We have five counties around here with emissions testing. Mine isn't one of them. I'd fix it anyway. Check engine light is not a death sentence. 

 

Hey, look I get. No one gives a hoot. But the OP obviously did. Same old same old. 

And it gets old.

 

People come for an answer, not fifty reasons their an idiot wasting time, money and resources. Be nice if we could be constructive, yea? 

 

 

 

[JimCost2014]

2 hours ago, Grumpy Bear said:

People come for an answer, not fifty reasons their an idiot wasting time, money and resources. Be nice if we could be constructive, yea?

Well played sir, now go wash your hands after you sanitize your keyboard.....

[Grumpy Bear]

11 hours ago, JimCost2014 said:

Well played sir, now go wash your hands after you sanitize your keyboard.....

Back at ya. This is the cleanest my keyboard has ever been.  

[JimCost2014]

3 minutes ago, Grumpy Bear said:

Back at ya. This is the cleanest my keyboard has ever been.  

Kind of feeling that way about myself too......

 

Made me start thinking about what the protocol will become for test/demo drives on lots, will they start screening people before they can drive a truck? Do they have to disclose if someone who was infected drove something, or was at the dealership?

 

Wonder how much sanitizer the finishes can take before it starts removing/staining them, etc.

 

This the biggest problem with this "epidemic", gives people like me to much time to think about things like this.

[KARNUT]

 

Check engine light gets a 'fix it' response  not a drive to the dump response. You getting soft in your old age?  [emoji4]

 

We have five counties around here with emissions testing. Mine isn't one of them. I'd fix it anyway. Check engine light is not a death sentence. 

 

Hey, look I get. No one gives a hoot. But the OP obviously did. Same old same old. 

And it gets old.

 

People come for an answer, not fifty reasons their an idiot wasting time, money and resources. Be nice if we could be constructive, yea? 
 
 
 

Let’s admit your the exception not the rule as far as longevity. My latest purchase looks brand new even the door jams it’s 18 years old. When in the salvage car business I ask those questions. The majority of the people couldn’t afford a 2000$ plus fix on a 3000$ car. Even if it was clean low mileage. They put 500$ down on a car and go down the road. After we gave them 300$ for their car. We pull the part off a wreck car and sell it for a grand with a salvage title. Some smarter people would repurchase their old car. They don’t have the mechanical abilities or time to do it their selfs. If everyone used your logic the auto business would be finished. And you wouldn’t been able to find the jewel your driving. There’s different normals yours is just one.


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[Grumpy Bear]

8 minutes ago, KARNUT said:

Let’s admit your the exception not the rule as far as longevity. My latest purchase looks brand new even the door jams it’s 18 years old. When in the salvage car business I ask those questions. The majority of the people couldn’t afford a 2000$ plus fix on a 3000$ car. Even if it was clean low mileage. They put 500$ down on a car and go down the road. After we gave them 300$ for their car. We pull the part off a wreck car and sell it for a grand with a salvage title. Some smarter people would repurchase their old car. They don’t have the mechanical abilities or time to do it their selfs. If everyone used your logic the auto business would be finished. And you wouldn’t been able to find the jewel your driving. There’s different normals yours is just one.

Good Morning KARNUT: There is much in your reply I agree with. Peoples skill level for instance. Daisy isn't quite as old as your girl but doorjambs are surgically clean. So is the under, over, back..... freaks dealers out I show her to. Salvage is a great business indeed. Your dad is smart cookie! Looks like his kids got the gene. 

 

Yep, I'm a different cut of cloth. Stupidity forced it upon me. Mine. While I made a very good living I gave most of it away to my mistakes. I'm the guy that put $2K in a $500 car instead of $500 down on a $20K car. Just writing that sentence makes me understand how expensive it is to move on. (shiver).

 

I quit turning wrenches for others when quite young. I quit turning them for myself when getting up off the ground became a chore. So I'm in the same boat as someone without skill except I seem to have a knack for finding younger guys that posses those skills. About one in a hundred shops by my estimation and it will get worse as the OEMS attempt via LAW to squeeze these fellas dry.

 

The exception I take in your post is:   If everyone used your logic the auto business would be finished. And you wouldn’t been able to find the jewel your driving. 

 

I disagree. It would add to the population of older cars to choose from and they would be in better shape. It would create demand for parts as OEM's move on. It would force OEM's to build better mouse traps instead enticing sales as if we were crows (and we do act like that). SHINNY. If my way would kill the auto industry then explain why there are thriving companies that make forks and knives? Forks have been around as long as man poking a stick into a piece of food. How perfect can a fork get? The argument has never held water. It in fact hurts everyone. Like packaging materials that get dumped into the sea does the packaging industry and by extension every living thing on earth. 

 

Humans by nature are to short sighted and WAY to greedy to self rule. But....that's another topic. 

 

In the end it shuffles jobs and creates new skills or revives old ones. Rest assured the greedy will not suffer nearly as much as most believe. 

[KARNUT]

Good Morning KARNUT: There is much in your reply I agree with. Peoples skill level for instance. Daisy isn't quite as old as your girl but doorjambs are surgically clean. So is the under, over, back..... freaks dealers out I show her to. Salvage is a great business indeed. Your dad is smart cookie! Looks like his kids got the gene. 

 

Yep, I'm a different cut of cloth. Stupidity forced it upon me. Mine. While I made a very good living I gave most of it away to my mistakes. I'm the guy that put $2K in a $500 car instead of $500 down on a $20K car. Just writing that sentence makes me understand how expensive it is to move on. (shiver).

 

I quit turning wrenches for others when quite young. I quit turning them for myself when getting up off the ground became a chore. So I'm in the same boat as someone without skill except I seem to have a knack for finding younger guys that posses those skills. About one in a hundred shops by my estimation and it will get worse as the OEMS attempt via LAW to squeeze these fellas dry.

 

The exception I take in your post is:   If everyone used your logic the auto business would be finished. And you wouldn’t been able to find the jewel your driving. 

 

I disagree. It would add to the population of older cars to choose from and they would be in better shape. It would create demand for parts as OEM's move on. It would force OEM's to build better mouse traps instead enticing sales as if we were crows (and we do act like that). SHINNY. If my way would kill the auto industry then explain why there are thriving companies that make forks and knives? Forks have been around as long as man poking a stick into a piece of food. How perfect can a fork get? The argument has never held water. It in fact hurts everyone. Like packaging materials that get dumped into the sea does the packaging industry and by extension every living thing on earth. 

 

Humans by nature are to short sighted and WAY to greedy to self rule. But....that's another topic. 

 

In the end it shuffles jobs and creates new skills or revives old ones. Rest assured the greedy will not suffer nearly as much as most believe. 

I like the way you think. This website and people like you have pried open my mind. In a family business you’re kind of sheltered. That being said I mostly agree. My mind remains open.

 

 

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[Grumpy Bear]

46 minutes ago, JimCost2014 said:

Kind of feeling that way about myself too......

 

Made me start thinking about what the protocol will become for test/demo drives on lots, will they start screening people before they can drive a truck? Do they have to disclose if someone who was infected drove something, or was at the dealership?

 

Wonder how much sanitizer the finishes can take before it starts removing/staining them, etc.

 

This the biggest problem with this "epidemic", gives people like me to much time to think about things like this.

Yea, about that.....

 

I now carry wipes in the truck. I've never been a germaphobe but mother didn't raise no fool either. 

[Grumpy Bear]

2 minutes ago, KARNUT said:

I like the way think. This website and people like you have pried open my mind. In a family business you’re kind of sheltered. That being said I mostly agree. My mind remains open.


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