Its long but well worth the read, thank you for posting this.

 

Good stuff! God damn women

 

Dam WOMEN....better do what their told....! LOL
YEEEEE HAAAH!.....
LMAO!!!

 

the wife takes care of her vehicles pretty well. she has a good understanding of what to do. now if i can just get her to stop getting on her brakes at the last minute

 

Mobil 1 5w30

 

good read. biggest thing is not to bag on it when its cold. the oil doesn't flow as well and the motor hasn't tightened up yet.
After reading that i'm interested in how my truck would respond to 0w30

A side note.

GM had a big problem, I think there was a class action against them, but their GAS motors had severe piston slap that they would sound like Diesels. The problem was traced to GM's manufacturing process. They wouldn't match pistons to the bore. As long as both were in spec, together they went. Problem was when you have a bore thats at it's maximum and a piston thats at its minimum it was very easy to get an out of spec piston to cylinder wall clearance. Especially after some miles.

 

Everyone has their own little tricks.

 

Great responses Guys. I DID say the BEST way to warm up a engine is by light driving right away ...and not by letting it sit ideling.

 

So marraige is the primary cause of most of our engine wear ???? ROFL
Or is it Women (for those of us married I guess its the same eh) ????

I agree with this post completely and have to add that not only the oil needs to be warm/hot to flow and lubricate efficiently but all those beautiful engine parts that we spend so much time setting the gaps/clearences on need to have that heat to be at the proper tolerences as well .

Have Mercy Ladies.......have Mercy !!
But lets be fair guys , I have seen many a man do the same .............

 

I belive the manual for my truck states that you need to allow the motor to run for 10 odd seconds to allow the oil to circulate and then go easy on it. And remember; just becuase your coolant temp guage shows normal operating temp. doesn't mean that your oil is at temp...

 

Wow! That's it in a RATHER LARGE nutshell then I guess.

"What you talkin' 'bout Willis?"

 

That write up is a Very Large Nut Shell but very interesting .

 

About six years ago -3F at 6:00am I hear a parked car running a full throttle for about 5 minutes and then let off and drives away. It happens 3 more days in a row, same time with temps never reaching zero F. The fifth time it revs for about 2 minutes and then this horrible Ka-Clang like a steel pipe slammed against an anvil. I get a call from my sister inlaw (lives 2 blocks away) "could you please come over, my car stopped running". I get there and there's a big pool of oil under her car, popped the hood and the right side valve cover was laying upside down crumpled on the exhaust manifold. Six rockers were shattered, 3 lifter rods had dented the hood and #2 crank rod had gone thru the pan and snapped the swaybar in half. Asked her what happened, she said "my ex told me to warm the engine up good before driving when it's cold". Guys make sure they understand HOW to bring the engine to operating temps.

 

Have Mercy....................tell me it isn't true

 

Good one!

 

Originally Posted by Dublin
About six years ago -3F at 6:00am I hear a parked car running a full throttle for about 5 minutes and then let off and drives away. It happens 3 more days in a row,

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Great example ... and Just like URBANJ said, "don't bag on it when it's cold"!!!
One can massivley wear out an engine by being too aggressive (heavy foot) with a cold engine.

FYI: Just 1 piston stroke with insufficient oil is is equal to driving 50 miles of normal driving... Its a hard fact that "cold oil" does NOT nearly protect as well as "warm oil" (212F).
And she drove the equivelent of 250,000 miles on 1 cold morning.....may that engine rest in peace....

man, conventional oil does take a while to warm up in sub zero temps.....
and She was JUST KILLING her engine...
women...

 

Hate to say it, and I'm not trying to tell people how to live their lives yet with 90% of all engine wear occuring at "start-up" NO ONE really has any business running conventinal oil during sub zero temperatures....during those times of the year, it just makes no sence and the "dino juice" is as hard as a rock AND DOES NOT FLOW WELL (in cold temps). As a matter of fact, conventional oil can leave you stranded and you can actually die or be frost bitten to the point of wishing you were dead (during chicago winters)! Don't try to save a few dollars by running dino juice in cold weather, be smart about this. Truely, "Synthetic oil" will laugh at "convential oil" during chicago winters.....HAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
(that was a laugh in a arrogant and deep voice)

All the while dino juice is as hard as "a brick" in the oil pan and starving your engine of oil (killing your engine), synthetic oil is "pouring free" and flowing great down to -54F below ZERO!!!
(and "syn" oil will laugh again, in a deep arrogant voice)
HAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

POURS FREE to -54F freaking below ZERO!!! Can you believe it..?
Come on now people...WHY RUN conventional "dino juice" during temperature extremes.....?
Do you really hate your engine ?
Most importantly, do you want to risk, say...... Dying?

remember, you can switch over to the "the dark side",
you know...over to Synthetic oils at any time.... hehe
over and out...