dukeboy440
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So I may have missed it and probably did, is Tim otw back to CA with the dart yet?
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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My dad has a 48 model B.
Well batting 0 for 3 today. Mains on the truck are too tight, (.001 instead of .0025).
So motors coming back out and get to tear it back down to polish the crank again.
Found hairline crack in oil pan for the truck.
Got everything back together on the 63, oil, filter, exhaust, plugs. Adding coolant and the new head gasket is trash. Its torqued to spec but there goes the new oil and coolant.
So motors coming back out and get to tear it back down to polish the crank again.
Found hairline crack in oil pan for the truck.
Got everything back together on the 63, oil, filter, exhaust, plugs. Adding coolant and the new head gasket is trash. Its torqued to spec but there goes the new oil and coolant.
dukeboy440
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That sucksWell batting 0 for 3 today. Mains on the truck are too tight, (.001 instead of .0025).
So motors coming back out and get to tear it back down to polish the crank again.
Found hairline crack in oil pan for the truck.
Got everything back together on the 63, oil, filter, exhaust, plugs. Adding coolant and the new head gasket is trash. Its torqued to spec but there goes the new oil and coolant.
So how is everyone elses evening/day going?
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Well, tomorrow is supposed to be very rainy and since the Senior Management is off at a conference in Las Vegas and I am working from home...
Seems like a great day to blow of work for most of the day and detail the GTS in the garage!
Screw ‘em!
Seems like a great day to blow of work for most of the day and detail the GTS in the garage!
Screw ‘em!
Unconventional
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@dukeboy_318 Tim left Texas @ 01:30 PDT I think he said. He should be in Ca by now.
I guess he took the fastest route, which didn't include going through CO.
I would give him the tour of rainy acres.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
His last post was at 3:11 am Pacific time. He had left Texas about 2 hours earlier and was stopping for some sleep. Will probably be a just while longer before he is home.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Tim said he was going to run RT 10. If he stopped an hour east of El Paso at 3 am and slept 4-6 hours, he will probably get home in the next hour or two.
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
The first pic was rug cleaner...
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
I don't know how much is 'enough'. But I would guess with the way they promote it, should be more than enough for a driver. Don't know about a race motor...
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Race engine? Depends on the engine. Roller cam or flat tappers?
The ZDDP requirements are very different for each. Too much in one may be not enough in another...and vice-versa.
I understand how you mean. You are probably right. I am unfamiliar with Kendall oils of today. I used it long time ago, like 25-35 years ago, and had no issue with it back then. Struggle finding 15W-40 or 20W-50 for gas engines around here so I went a couple of towns up north and bought it from a place that sells oils sort of half wholesale, but to bigger customers like truck companies and that kind of things.
Bill
1965 225 stock Slant Six, most likely unopened, said to be around 90000 miles or in that neighborhood.
Bill
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
For that engine, your choice is fine. It only needs a bit of ZDDP to make it happy and keep it running strong. It is a flat tappet engine, but not a high RPM race motor. The amount of ZDDP in that oil is plenty good enough.
Yeah, I realize that, I just grabbed it from under the table in the garage and my eyesight is not good for reading so I did not even look at it, just wrote the reply, and upload a pic, took it, was so sure I had the oil can under that table, and when I had sent the reply it dawned rather slowly what prank I had done to myself.
Bill
Oil brands is sort of a can of worms, there is a lot of opinions about them. Could still be fun to hear if someone has had bad experience or very good experience with that oil. Or if someone else is using Kendall oils.
Bill
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
My Dad was a Ph.D chemist for Sunoco for over 30 years. Our family’s 1966 327 cid Impala station wagon was one of the test mules for unleaded fuels back in the 70s. It was also a test mule for different oils types, additives and blends. Sunoco rebuilt the engine completely when the testing was done.
Sunoco tested that stuff on thousands of cars of different ages and mileages and analyzed the data...and I got to see it all through my Dad.
I have learned a thing or two about motor oil and fuel over the years.
dukeboy440
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When I was truck pulling and working for the team, we tried everything one could think of to squeeze power. Including oils.
The best advice, forget the advertising, send off your oil to a company that does oil sample testing. They can tell you the microscopic parts of metal that are in your oil and how well it’s protecting and lasting.
The filter brand is highly important as well, if you’re running a fram or Walmart type special, forget the oil supplements, upgrade the filters, then the oils.
Oil sampling is cheap and you might be surprised at the results.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
You are referring to BlackStone Labs and the information you get is only as good as your ability to interpret what it means. For most average drivers, it is a waste of time and money to do oil analysis. Most don’t understand what the results mean or how to put them into contex for their application.
The general rule is to use an oil appropriately suited for your application and change it and the filter every 3-6k miles depending on your driving habits...and that’s pretty much all you need to know with modern oil on a street driver.
Unconventional
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Tank battery Contra Costa County Ca. 2 tanks that were allegedly less than 1% filled with ethanol. I80 on one side Phillips refinery on the other.
dukeboy440
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That doesn’t look good
I have no idea what oil the engine has now, and I am not sure about the filter either. I plan to paint the engine and in that process I also plan to have the valve cover off to wire brush it on top before the painting, and at the same time wash it inside. When that is done I will wash around where the filter sits, and replace the oil pressure sender which is coming and going as the tides in the Bay of Fundy.
The new filter will be a WIX 51515 filter, and the oil you have already seen after I tried to fool everyone but mostly myself with the RugDoctor cleaner.
Since we are into this conversation, in Norway there was one oil filter brand that was carried by all gas stations in the time I had my old Dart, and that was advertised as the ultimate oil filter. A lot of people used it, including me. So, my 170 cu.in Slant Six I had back then did not go on any other filter than the Fram PH8A I think it was still called that back in the 1980ties. I once ordered a filter with some other parts for my car and at that time I suspect it was for my 1971 Ford Torino, and ordered a Fram PH8A (since Ford and Mopar used the same filter), and the filter I got had no markings on it, but the same orange sort of Fram color, and I mounted it on the car, and was running the engine to get it warm, and suddenly the gasket on the filter blew, and it emptied the oil pan and the well, you can imagine how it looked like under the hood. Luckily I was gone for just a little, and it was still squirting oil when I came out. I never touched anything Framwise after that episode. Went over to Wix, and had no trouble anymore.
Bill
This lays in Concord, northern Bay area and Concord had a 4.5 earth quake last night around 10:30 pacific time. I did not feel it, but June's son and his fiance was sleeping, and they have a Shepard and it woke them up about that time, and it could be felt as far down as San Jose I have read. But who knows if the earth quake had anything to do with it.
June and I was sleeping too, and did not notice anything. June's daughter was sitting in her bed doing something at that time and did not feel anything either. The epicenter was said to have been 9 miles under the surface.
Bill
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