StrumerJoe
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Cute lap dog.
10,000 Mile Oil Changes:
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Well, there’s no stopping it. The die is cast. GM has already announced it will stop making gasoline powered cars and light trucks by 2035. California is requiring all new, light-duty vehicles sold in the state to be zero emission by 2030 - essentially eliminating all but EVs only. These are just a couple examples.
No, this is the way things are going. It’s the next major shift In transportation. Just as the automobile replaced the horse-drawn carriage and air travel significantly reduced the demand for passenger rail, the electric vehicle is the direction new vehicles are going.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Robert would flip out at my 1988 F250 with 337k miles on it. The truck ran on any and all brands, types and viscosities of oil. Filters were mainly cheap Fram units.
It likely never saw a drop of Synthetic in it's whole life and yet I bought it used and put maybe 200K on it before a number of age related and environment related repairs became necessary. It now sits in our driveway for close to 10 years and WILL run again. Ya see, it was WAY before one would mention Algorithms and Trucks in the same breath. Yes it has a computer, but DAMN if I don't feel safer that it has a Manual Trans, a Cable activated Throttle, and virtually no computer only controlled components to fail and leave me in a no control while driving circumstance.
If I could live the rest of my life never driving a car or truck newer than 1983 and 1988 like my 2 Hondas and my F250 4x4 are. I would be able to drive, stop and fix anything the car/truck needed and not need anything but hand tools, a floor jack and stands, a shop manual and a multi meter.
****** HAHAH I hit send and forgot to post about why Robert would really flip.
Probably as far back as 1997 I had the truck bog down on me after I took off at a stop light. It would not stay running after I turned the corner and when I got out to lift the hood, I saw the exhaust manifold glowing bright orange. Diagnosis was clogged Cat. Fix, blow out the remaining chunks of stuff left in the cat and essentially run on straight pipes except the mufflers. In case one never guessed, the truck became too old for emissions tests and I never had to make the costly repair of a new cat and of course Oxy sensor BS etc and yet my truck ran and ran and ran for 30+ years.
Having said that, I currently drive a 1994 F150 daily and a 1998 Toyota Camry that was my mom's.
Oh yeah, and the part I liked most about my F250 351W was it was a bull of a truck even though I mostly babied it, it also busted ass when needed.
Still remember the back to back loads of number 57 gravel I hauled from the aggregates plant that weighed 2.4 ton and 1.75 tons on a 3/4 ton truck.
The truck never owed me anything except to make it to my destinations, haul years worth of lumber and masonry goods. I used to joke and say that if I ever won the lottery, I would not buy a new truck, I would restore my BABY and take it to my grave with me.
I am hoping to get my garage one day, and this rebuild will surely bring her back to life again. My old truck sure has been like a family member to me.
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Cadorman
Ambassador of the Catocaster
I've used Amsoil for twenty five years now. I even use it for my chainsaws bar oil. The 2000 Toyrota is well over 200,000 miles now and gets 100 put on it every day I go to work. Forty of that is on a low maintenance forest road. All gravel and boulders peaking up to annoy you. I change the oil once a year. Yeah, I'm lazy too.
Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
We are looking at a Lexus hybrid - a decent start, no charging required, high performance.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Sure am glad that to make electric power,electric vehicles and to dispose of dead batteries, there is no pollution involved. I won't say anything more.
As things progress, EV batteries won’t end up in landfills. The batteries can be repurposed and recycled. That technology is progressing right alongside everything else. There are whole new markets emerging in support of EVs giving rise to new businesses and income opportunities.
OP
Tell me about 3 pickup Les Paul....
OP
Well, that could very well be.
Ill be happy to stick with my V8 just the same...and I was a Tesla Service tech in 2012. I'm not at all impressed.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
yes and we Americans take so well....... to being told to change.....
Metric Conversion Act - Wikipedia
not saying it wont happen -- but Im guessing 2035 is a bit (as usual w/ these things) "optimistic" ......
besides my 2005 Ford F150 will just be good and broke in by then......
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
they will need to make em a WHOLE LOT cheaper by then as well......
ANd at the going rate --- they will still be selling the cars and trucks they have back logged now waiting on chips till at least 2030
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
Long gone--- that was an @Hackmaster chibson -- started life as a SLASH replica I believe I (or Hack??) got from @Sp8ctre ....then traded to Hack for some black tar heroine or pizza ... never can tell.... it got HACK A FIED with the added pup --- came back to the Swamp Farm in some other swap of whores --- and went on .....in another trade deal....to... a friend of mine who is a Mercedes Mechanic in Brandon Fl. and plays in a bar band on weekends--- it too is being used -- to shield his GOOD LESTERS from the drunken bar rabble -- and making $ and MUsic for its owner
YES before @gball and the Gibson faithful bitch and get all bent and such -- YES ITS A FAKE --- YES (3) of us on this forum traded upgraded and re-traded a FAKE openly KNOWING it was a fake and treated as such -- it was not advertised on OPEN MARKET it was NOT SOLD -- it was traded among (semi adult) KNOWING PARTICIPANTS in the fact it is and is desired AS a fake -- Thank you for holding all lectures on how HORRIBLE this is and how GIBSON should hunt us all down and kill us
--also no polar bears were harmed in the trade deals--
OP
Long gone--- that was an @Hackmaster chibson -- started life as a SLASH replica I believe I (or Hack??) got from @Sp8ctre ....then traded to Hack for some black tar heroine or pizza ... never can tell.... it got HACK A FIED with the added pup --- came back to the Swamp Farm in some other swap of whores --- and went on .....in another trade deal....to... a friend of mine who is a Mercedes Mechanic in Brandon Fl. and plays in a bar band on weekends--- it too is being used -- to shield his GOOD LESTERS from the drunken bar rabble -- and making $ and MUsic for its owner
YES before @gball and the Gibson faithful bitch and get all bent and such -- YES ITS A FAKE --- YES (3) of us on this forum traded upgraded and re-traded a FAKE openly KNOWING it was a fake and treated as such -- it was not advertised on OPEN MARKET it was NOT SOLD -- it was traded among (semi adult) KNOWING PARTICIPANTS in the fact it is and is desired AS a fake -- Thank you for holding all lectures on how HORRIBLE this is and how GIBSON should hunt us all down and kill us
--also no polar bears were harmed in the trade deals--
Very cool...that would be a great stage prop to create the Ace Frehely smoke generator guitar.
Ramo
AmTHRASHador of Chugz
Let me drive that car and I will age it for you in a week. You’ll have custom relics for sure
You should see my car, scratches and dents
thats what cabbing dose to a car 
BFT Gibson
Ambassador of Originality
mustang GT 4,6 cammed up & 4.10 rear 5 speed, no cats, tuned for 93,, every 500 Castrol GTX 5w-30
jeep 4.0 every 2-2500 & drain 2 qts of tranny fluid each time & fill back up, Rotella 15-40 (flat tappet cam)
Harley every1000 - & crankcase- 20-50 syn & Harley cgear lube
Mercury 9.9 4 stroke, use Merc marine oil & lower unit, just stayed with original
Evinrude 6 2 stroke
Evinrude 25 2 stroke
mercury 6 2 stroke
all get 50:1 mix direct inject, 2 stokers def have the edge in hole shot
Motors & doing routine maintenance is prob my fav thing in life.
The internals are so clear it all looks new... NAPA Wix Gold filters in all of em !! No compromise here
jeep 4.0 every 2-2500 & drain 2 qts of tranny fluid each time & fill back up, Rotella 15-40 (flat tappet cam)
Harley every1000 - & crankcase- 20-50 syn & Harley cgear lube
Mercury 9.9 4 stroke, use Merc marine oil & lower unit, just stayed with original
Evinrude 6 2 stroke
Evinrude 25 2 stroke
mercury 6 2 stroke
all get 50:1 mix direct inject, 2 stokers def have the edge in hole shot
Motors & doing routine maintenance is prob my fav thing in life.
The internals are so clear it all looks new... NAPA Wix Gold filters in all of em !! No compromise here
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Not any more, retired. :dood:
Oh, I’m not pushing Tesla or even EVs. But, I recognize the direction things are moving.
Did did you dislike something about Tesla or was there some “Wow” factor you were expecting?
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
I knew this.