Re: more lazy-er

 

After my latest experience trying to troubleshoot the electrical
system on my Silverado, I can essentially say that about the only
thing I can do on it any more is oil/filter changes, brakes and
tune up shit.

I'm not going to buy a $5000 Tech2 analyzer.


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Why you raggn' on white helmets (they are cooler on warm days you
know)? :) Makes it easy to pick my pictures out of the crowd @
organized events. :) I did change a front tire this week and think
I'll be changing another one tonight (if my buddy brings it over)...

I don't change my vehicle oil mostly because I'd still have to haul
the oil to the station anyway. Might as well let them change it and
keep the waste.

I will probably never get old enough to wear socks with shorts
again... especially dark socks. I mean we did the tall tube socks with
pretty stripes at the top back  in the 70's... don't need to go there
again.

I'm selectively lazy... :)

 
That's always been my theory - worth the extra $15 not to have to deal
with the mess.  I proclaimed 20 years ago that I would never change my
own oil.  After dealing with the shop snafu with my daughter's car,
however, has me changing my tune.  I don't know that I'll ever have my
oil changed again - there's no way of telling what they actually do
and/or don't do.

I think I can dump waste oil right into my furnace tank, provided I
run it through a coffee filter first.  I might just start doing that.

JayC

 
Some research on that will benefit you quite a bit.

I've seen some debate on it, some folks have done it, some swear it'll
kill your pump, the 'facts' about it that I trust the most are:

1) Frequent furnace cleaning- anyone that's used a waste oil burner
can attest to the crud hiding in oil

2) Just putting motor oil in your tank will get you a big glob of
cruddy goop on the bottom of the tank. A more sophisticated approach
is required involving a mixing unit, or a way to feed oil into the
line is required.

3) You may have to 'start' the burner on pure fuel oil, then add in
motor oil

4) The oil needs to be filtered quite well if you're going to avoid a
short-lived pump.

Dave

 I don't trust the oil-pit monkeys with my vehicles.  I have spoke with
too many people that have had problems with simple oil changes.  It's
a 20-30 minute job.  I just put my old oil in a 1 gallon milk
container and they pick it up with my recyclables every Tuesday.  If I
want to get rid of it quicker, I head to the auto parts store and dump
it there.  Plus, I want to see the oil coming out.  I run synthetic
oil and replace it every 7.5K or twice a year.  It comes out of the
Titan looking nearly as good as when I put it in.  My Acura RSX-s
looks almost as good coming out.  I spend alot of time near the 8K
redline.  I'm OK with it based on results of Blackstone Laboratories
analysis of others oil using the same vehicles and oil, but with 15K
between oil changes.  The oil was still doing it's job.  Oh yeah, OEM
filters.  

Between the bikes and vehicles, I have oil sitting on the curb most
every week.

Mike Baxter

On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:59:36 -0700 (PDT), XR650L_Dave