Recent content by khittner

On my oil-burning '02 Camry (295K miles) every 500 miles (it uses 1qt. every 1000-1200 miles), and the same on my '95 Dakota (238K miles), depending on whether it's been hauling at highway speeds. My other two non-oil-burners get checked once or twice between 5K changes.

I use Idemitsu PSF in my '10 Sonata. $5.19/12oz. bottle on Amazon.

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Yes, I keep a quart or two of oil in my oil-burners. They burn about a quart in 1000 miles, maybe a tad more at constant interstate speeds, or when substantially loaded. Saves finding a Wal-Mart on a road trip.

Far be it from me to argue with experts equipped with numbers, so here's my anecdote: My '02 Camry 2.4 liter, 4sd auto (U151E?) has had MaxLife ATF in its original, unopened (except for filter replacements during pan drops) transmission for the last 180K miles. The car now has 294K miles on it...

With Valvoline Premium Blue Restore, the value of the crankcase contents would exceed the value of a 24yr-old Tercel. Routine 5K-mile OCIs with a 5w-30 synthetic is all that's warranted. Oil is cheap, so keep a tightly-closed 5qt. jug of Supertech, Kirkland, or Amazon Basics in the trunk, add as...

My ‘77 Vespa P200E specs ND30 for both the oil injection system and the separate gear box. I've read the manual, but I disregard it, and run synthetic 2-stroke in the engine, and synthetic 4-stroke in the transmission, and they seem to work well.

Honda Pilot, Toyota Camry + snow tires, 4wd Matrix/Vibe

Originally Posted by gman2304 Dawn liquid might have helped as a first step but after all the different methods you tried and the two wash cycles, the stains are probably "set" and there's no helping them now. It may take a couple iterations l with Dawn applied full-strength directly to the...

I'm currently running SuperTech 75w-90 in my 2WD '95 Dakota's 5-speed manual transmission and final drives, and the has about 8K miles on it. 238K miles on the truck. I don't notice any performance difference between the SuperTech, and the Amsoil Severe Gear and Mobil 1 iterations that preceded it.

I've used Fel-Pro gaskets on the differential cover of my '95 Dakota for most of its 25 years, replacing the synthetic oil (mostly Mobil 1 75w-90) and gasket every 30K for the truck's 238K total mileage. No leaks from the cover gaskets. The only differential leak I've ever had was from the input...

A guy with 2700+ posts needs help with this? Yeah, no.

I can Priceline a lot of nice hotel rooms for a lot of nights before the cost of buying, operating, maintaining, and parking an RV of any kind makes sense.

Supton: Valve cover gasket?

As long as they work well, they're fine. If they could sell all of the lottery tickets at convenience stores with them, rather than occupying a clerk while the line of customers lengthens, that would be genuine progress.