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Teamster Grrrrl I think you'd do well to get out of the VW that they may never engineer the proper fix for! And as u said there may be other issues that will appear when you put more miles on the car, them being such an ethical manufacturer!

41 I remember reading that Hot Rod article on Ivos quad Buick looked better as a rail! Most of those multi engine drag cars didn't quite run as well as hoped for! I guess you gotta make up for all that extra weight!

Freightrain, in the fifties and sixties when we had the salvage yard, we couldn't give away nailhead Buick engines ! They never wear out! We scrapped all but a couple! Most were 264 and 322. I drove a 55 century and my dad drove a 56 special he had rebuilt from a rollover. I took my drivers test on a 50 straight eight my dad bought new.

Freightrain, in the fifties and sixties when we had the salvage yard, we couldn't give away nailhead Buick engines ! They never wear out! We scrapped all but a couple! Most were 264 and 322. I drove a 55 century and my dad drove a 56 special he had rebuilt from a rollover. I took my drivers test on a 50 straight eight my dad bought new.

Fxfymn, Its pretty obvious Ford didn't want to p...off such a loyal customer as your friend! I can't help but wonder how well a single vehicle owner would fare in the same situation! As for the problem with finding a specific grade of oil, you can approach the manager of Sam's club and explain why you think they should stock a certain oil oil brand and grade, and he will approach his or her superiors and they may approve stocking that oil! I did this in 2012 and they've stocked Castrol.Edge 0w/20 ever since! It is apparently selling, because every time I stop there are cases missing! As for Rotella T being unsuitable for gasoline engines, It depends what engine you're talking about, and what climate you live in! My 92 Isuzu has a solid lifter inline single overhead cam 4 banger, and I've used 15/40 rotella for almost 50000 of its 172000 miles and it shows no sign of wear! The manual recommends 10/w30, but I'm sure the internal clearances can deal with 10/w40 ! In my climate. Having said that, the modern engines tend to have tighter clearances and run a little warmer, so 0w20 is the oil for them, also the manufacturers have to meet increasingly tighter emissions standards!

Ksb, you misunderstood me! When I discovered Rotella didn't offer 10/w 30 except by special order with no discount I bought Castrol gtx 10 w 30 by the case and used it in the Corolla til it was totalled by flood at 141000 mi excellent results. The 2012 corolla she replaced it with as you suggested, calls for 0w/20 which was only available in Mobil 1@ 9.00 per qt I've never cared for Mobil 1, so I talked the manager at Sam's club to stocking Castrol Edge 0w/20 by the case about 6.00 a at! It costs me 34.00 in materials to change the oil in the 2012 corolla! They recommend you change it @10000, I reject this, I do it at 5 or 6000, or yearly whichever comes first. I maintain every vehicle like I'm going to keep it for life! However if I had to pay 200. For an oil change I might do it at 10000, but I'd sell it in 5 years like the average owner. The average Japanese style transverse engine with today's alloys and lubricants is good for 300000 miles without a major repair.assuming you replace the timing belt and water pump with an interference engine! My beloved 80 Fairmont wagon had 210000 no smoke no noises Rotella T 15/ 40 every 3000 mi the flood got it too! Was a 200 6 banger.

KSB, I read about this outfit somewhere. It's our nuclear warhead haulers right? Four new tractors in the whole fleet! Maybe they'd get their act together if they had to haul a dangerous commodity!😁 Not surprising I've hauled many loads into our military depots If I was the criminal type I could steal any one of them blind! The only real security I've ever seen was at the Savannah River plant on the border of Georgia and S Carolina! They put an armed guard in the cab with you while you unload! Also a prison in Pa I forget the name of! The Savannah River Plant is a Nuclear facility that provides electricity to much of the southeast! KSB, ever see the original "Diamonds are Forever"? A driver who also delivered to the Savannah River Plant was a little cockney brit ex stunt man from Birmingham UK drove Sean Connerys Astin Martin between the two buildings! Ritchie Smith. Called his wife "me Dragon"😁 Most interesting dude I've ever met!

A bonnet only a mother could love!

Teamster Grrrl, in 2003 my wife bought her first " econobox", a 1.8L Corolla. Prior to that, I used 15w40 Rotella T in every internal combustion engine I owned! Wanting to preserve her warranty I stopped at the Toyota dealer and asked the counterman what oil was recommended for her car! He misunderstood me ,thought I wanted to know what it cost for an oil change! One hundred dollars 2003! That's 4.2 qts of oil one spin on filter! 10/w30 oil. I explained I wanted to know what oil do you recommend. He hands.me a generic quart of 10/30 oil,3.50$! Rotella only sells 10/30 by special order,no discount,so I get Castrol gtx at Sam's club by the case, about 2.00 a qt and a fram or a.c. Delco filter for 3.90 at wal Mart. So 12.00 in round figures! And one half hrs. Labor( I'm slow!) There have been numerous videos at Jiffy lube type places and dealership shops showing how they don't do what they are paid to do! One of their favorite ploys is cleaning your injection system. 8 ounces of Lucas additive eliminates that plus lubes the upper cylinder area! Every other fill up. Her 03 econobox was totaled in a flood with 141000 mi no major repairs still smelled new!

Thomastractor, sharp looking R! Is that a former oil field or farm truck? I'm referring to the front bumper! Dig the color combo!

I read the want ads occasionally for amusement! 98 percent of the members are gearheads right? Who would advertise a truck fuel tank without the capacity? Another amusing ad yesterday, 57 Chevy radiator good condition. Is it a six or a v8? I also suspect that the 265 or power pak 283 were different capacity! Have to waste your time and his to find out!

Smith Motor, there was a round aluminum fuel tank in the Tampa Bay Times yesterday, 50 bucks the idiot didn't list the capacity, if it's in the paper today and you haven't got one ( or one of you others need one) I'll post the phone #

41, my old terminal was on the same exit as Garlits in Bellevue Florida, been past it dozens of times! 70 miles from my house! Ill get there someday, always wanted to see the powertrain on IVOS four engine dragster! Will look for your stuff too! My buddy used to be on a top fuel team ran Garlits in the 60s or 70s! Garlits threw away a couple worn out slicks my buddy carried them back to Ohio, they ended up at the original Quaker Steak and Lube in Pa!

When Cody Bayus won the 2014 Summit IHRA nationals at Memphis Summit gave him a brand new rail, plus ten grand and a trip to Aruba! Codys trailer only held one car and Summit had an mt trailer going back to Akron! For some reason they wouldn't haul the car he just won back to Ohio! His team caught a ride part way with another racer and had to drop his car in Ohio and go back and pick up the new race car!What a deal!

Dirty, you're absolutely right Berry was unique in his sound and style! also wrote all his own songs! Was still performing into his late seventies!

If they didn't name it rock n roll they could have named it Chuck Berry!....Bob Dylan. I remember the first Chuck Berry tune I heard was "Maybelline" 1956. I was 12 years old! It was on legendary D J Porky Chadwick's show, who himself died at 93 down here in Fla.

When Cody Bayus won the 2014 Summit IHRA nationals at Memphis Summit gave him a brand new rail, plus ten grand and a trip to Aruba! Codys trailer only held one car and Summit had an mt trailer going back to Akron! For some reason they wouldn't haul the car he just won back to Ohio! His team caught a ride part way with another racer and had to drop his car in Ohio and go back and pick up the new race car!What a deal!

For those of you who didn't grow up in the " steel valley" Reddog is a pinkish rock ( the end result of the coking process) used for roads and driveways,it packs very well!

Wow u guys,the memories! The first school bus I rode was a Federal,late forties,slightly resembled a Diamond T the owner had a fifties Federal too the one with the split chrome grille. We lived on highway 19,about 8 miles N of Canonsburg pa .before daybreak I would listen for cars with chains on them! If it snowed enough to put chains on there was a good chance school would be cancelled!😁 there was a steel company in Washington pa that ran a fleet of chain drive Mack straight jobs they had half cabs so they could haul long sections of angle and channel iron. You could hear their drive chains ringing a half mile away ! If school.was cancelled my buddy Butch and I had a 46 Plymouth hood, we would both get on it and ride down a really steep hill in the woods nearby! We both had Radio flyer sleds, but the hood was more fun! There was a really steep reddog road behind my dad's salvage yard and I was flying down it on my sled, Butch was right behind me,well our neighbors 49 Ford drifted down his driveway right in front of me! I hit it's back bumper with my face! I had a broken nose, probably a concussion, and was bleeding like a stuck pig! Butch helped me up the stairs to our house, my poor mother looked like she would have a stroke! Somehow I managed to survive! Kids today don't know what they're missing!😁

41, the automotive aftermarket is filled with Chinese knock off crap, my late son in law ordered a Summit branded four barrel manifold for his El Camino about seven yrs ago, made in China! He assumed a product from " the great American racing store" would be American made wrong!

Thanks for the comeback Freightrain! That's what I figured! The one on 71 by Delaware got me 1500 over on the drive in 74 the same day that that tornado leveled the town of Zenia I just missed that debacle! Was driving an R model for J V Mcnicholas out of Youngstown they let me go on the 1500, that's two bullets I dodged that day! We've probably crossed paths, from 74 to 79 I was hauling new Ford's out of Pittsburgh and I hit the dealer on 77 in Canton, New Philly,Louisville, virtually every little town in Oh,Pa W va and Pa has a Ford dealer! Is Quaker City your home track with the Willys gasser? My friend who told me about the scales used to run there, he's semi retired now but is on Cody Bayuses IHRA team.

I have no knowledge of how remote car lock systems work, but I know for sure that used car dealers when financing someone with a shaky credit history install a tracking device and or keep a spare key to repossess the unit.I believe the law requires the buyer to sign a document authorizing the dealer to do this! I suspect that this info is hidden in the " fine print" as is standard procedure with many sleazy business operations! I think the last person I'd want to have a key to my car (or one of their unvetted employees) who could easily copy the key! Another problem with old fashioned keys is that they often fit more than one of the same model vehicle! I once parked a popular make tractor on the NY Thruway running, in below zero weather. When I left the plaza I discovered that my spare key didn't work! As I was freezing my butt off trying to break into my truck with a coat hanger a driver with the same model truck handed me his key! It worked on my other door! I have always tightened a 2" cargo strap between my armrests when sleeping in the truck!

Speaking of longevity,I delivered two Israeli command vehicles( Chevy Blazers,in desert camo with machine gun mounts) To the port in Bayonne NJ. My agent said he talked to the shipper and they weren't equipped with fuel filters because they would probably be destroyed before a filter would need to be changed! This was during the ist Gulf war.

Speaking of longevity,I delivered two Israeli command vehicles( Chevy Blazers,in desert camo with machine gun mounts) To the port in Bayonne NJ. My agent said he talked to the shipper and they weren't equipped with fuel filters because they would probably be destroyed before a filter would need to be changed! This was during the ist Gulf war.