Originally Posted By: Oil Changer
Bla, bla, bla. You're nonsensical. The engine will be fully capable of propelling the truck down the road if you stopped changing the oil and filter completely and just kept it topped off. But you have some OCD about clean engines.
You got time to bicker on an Internet forum of what cheap oil and filter to buy. You got time to do stupid-short, ridiculous, and useless oil changes but you don't have time to fix something important. Why isn't this vehicle worthy of premium things? What's your mother worth? She's the one you're really doing it for. What's more important, changing the oil or fixing a potentially deadly front end problem? You did say it was shot. How's the brakes? Those are probably shot too.
That clean, orange oil filter will look really good when the truck is upside down in a ditch because you're mother over-corrected when a tie rod let loose.
Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Originally Posted By: Oil Changer
So just stop changing the oil and filter...seriously. What are you going to do, send it to the junk yard with "clean" oil after the front or rear end give way? Nonsensical. But hey, the guy that gets the engine from the junk yard will thank you. Think how clean those ring lands will be when the tie rod falls off and the truck goes sliding into a ditch or guard rail.
I'd spend the extra couple bucks and get an Ultra.
Why would I send it to the junk yard with a dirty engine and not change the oil? It's a car that has always had its oil changed since new every 4k miles or so, so I know the engine is clean. I have all new control arm bushings and tie rods waiting to go in, just haven't gotten around to doing it. The rear end howling is common and it hasn't changed in the last 70k miles so I don't care at all. As long as it keeps going down the road that's all that matters.
It's actually been amazingly reliable. For the past 141k miles the ONLY repairs done to it have been a leaky water pump at around 100k, a bad coolant temperature sensor at around 100k, a harmonic balancer at 130k, and a leaky heater hose I just fixed. Those have been the ONLY repairs on the car.
Who peed in your Cheerios this morning? Yeah the front end is what I call shot. It wears out the tires pretty quick since things are pretty worn. How is her safety in jeopardy? So if the car has 50k miles left in it, you're saying to just let it go 50k miles on this oil change and it'll make it there just fine? All you are to this forum is a troll. The brakes have 2k miles on them.