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From: Tegger on 23 Oct 2007 12:12 Built_Well <Built_Well_Toyota(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:1193152784.344472.278540(a)v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com: > Tegger wrote: > >> I change the car's oil ever two months > ======== > > Tegger, why do you change your car's oil so often, every > 2 months? Are you using conventional oil instead of > synthetic? Or are you just traveling 5,000 miles every > 2 months? > > Wife doesn't drive much (it's her car). Water builds up, oil rarely gets hot enough to drive it all off. I use Castrol GTX 5W-30 in that car. -- Tegger
From: Built_Well on 23 Oct 2007 12:23 Tegger wrote: > Built_Well <Built_Well_Toyota(a)hotmail.com> wrote in > news:1193152784.344472.278540(a)v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com: > > > Tegger wrote: > > > >> I change the car's oil ever two months > > ======== > > > > Tegger, why do you change your car's oil so often, every > > 2 months? Are you using conventional oil instead of > > synthetic? Or are you just traveling 5,000 miles every > > 2 months? > > > > > > > > Wife doesn't drive much (it's her car). Water builds up, oil rarely gets > hot enough to drive it all off. > > I use Castrol GTX 5W-30 in that car. > > -- > Tegger ======== Oh, I see. I guess if the oil never gets hot enough to boil off the water and acids, it takes a toll on the oil.
From: clifto on 23 Oct 2007 12:48 Scott Dorsey wrote: >>You won't be disappointed by the Harbor Freight stands. If you >>need some very good 6-ton stands really cheap, hurry in before >>their sale ends. And if you want the very best stands, pick >>up the DuraLast at AutoZone. > > Hit it with a five-pound hammer. Does it leave a mark? Methinks you're going too far with this one. I've never seen a jack stand, or for that matter a hydraulic lift, jack, or other lifting tool that wouldn't show a mark when hit with a five-pound hammer. Hell, a five-pound hammer will leave a mark on another five-pound hammer. -- One meter, to within 0.0125% accuracy (off by just under .005 inches): Three feet Three inches Three eights of an inch
From: Scott Dorsey on 23 Oct 2007 13:56 In article <q7l1v4-dl4.ln1(a)remote.clifto.com>, clifto <clifto(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Scott Dorsey wrote: >>>You won't be disappointed by the Harbor Freight stands. If you >>>need some very good 6-ton stands really cheap, hurry in before >>>their sale ends. And if you want the very best stands, pick >>>up the DuraLast at AutoZone. >> >> Hit it with a five-pound hammer. Does it leave a mark? > >Methinks you're going too far with this one. I've never seen a jack stand, >or for that matter a hydraulic lift, jack, or other lifting tool that >wouldn't show a mark when hit with a five-pound hammer. Hell, a five-pound >hammer will leave a mark on another five-pound hammer. Oh, of course it will. But what does the mark look like? That's the tell-tale. Not as good as putting the metal on a grinder and looking at the sparks, of course... --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
From: jim on 23 Oct 2007 14:28
Mike Romain wrote: > > Bruce L. Bergman wrote: > > > Trust me, if the lugs do get loose you'll feel a problem long before > > it gets bad enough to where the wheel will fall off the car. > > > > TOTAL BULLSHIT!!!!!! > > I have had a shop not tighten the nuts correctly or had "a failure in > their impact gun" TWICE in my life. > > Both times I lost wheel on the highway at speed and thankfully lived to > tell about it. Well sure, if you drive a vehicle that always sounds and feels like the wheels are falling off you aren't going to be able to tell when they really are. -jim ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |