Oil Life Reset

[07navi]

Who wants to tell him that the speedometer does not keep track of miles.... It is the odometer that does that...

odo is near the speedo

 

[jeff kushner]

It might have come from the oil companies, but it was also in all the manuals. I always felt like 3k was a good number. Gave you the warm and fuzzy... Better than what the girl who owned my son's Mustang before him thought.... We don't need to change no steenkeeng oil...

Hey Hawk, what's the matter with those inserts? Isn't that how they are supposed to look? ROTFLMAO?

OUCH!



jeff

 

[HawkX66]

Hey Hawk, what's the matter with those inserts? Isn't that how they are supposed to look? ROTFLMAO?

OUCH!



jeff

Ya, the bearings were toast. As was the cam and quite a few other parts. Ugly... She rips now though and is one of the best sounding Mustangs on the road that I've heard. My son has ~20k on the motor and she still runs like a top. He doesn't drive it in the winter, but he called me the other day to tell me he went out on a nice day and started it to check everything out. He was absolutely amazed at how easy it started lol

 

[Greg Coleman]

Ya, the bearings were toast. As was the cam and quite a few other parts. Ugly... She rips now though and is one of the best sounding Mustangs on the road that I've heard. My son has ~20k on the motor and she still runs like a top. He doesn't drive it in the winter, but he called me the other day to tell me he went out on a nice day and started it to check everything out. He was absolutely amazed at how easy it started lol

Those pictures should be the poster for "CHANGE YOUR FREAKIN' OIL!!!"
I met a guy a couple years back that leased his cars. He NEVER took them in for an oil change!! 2 years and 24K miles!! He knew he wouldn't be keeping it, so WTH?? His engines probably looked a lot like those pictures...

 

[HawkX66]

Those pictures should be the poster for "CHANGE YOUR FREAKIN' OIL!!!"
I met a guy a couple years back that leased his cars. He NEVER took them in for an oil change!! 2 years and 24K miles!! He knew he wouldn't be keeping it, so WTH?? His engines probably looked a lot like those pictures...

I suspect his Mustang was probably more than 2 years and some overheating and a whole lot of I don't care lol Keep your eyes open. He goes to UofM for Mech Eng so he rips his Mustang around up by you quite a bit during nice weather.

 

[rjdelp7]

Hey Hawk, what's the matter with those inserts? Isn't that how they are supposed to look? ROTFLMAO?

OUCH!



jeff

The dark rod , usually means a spun bearing

 

[coupe11]

My whole life I've been keeping a log book of all my cars (there have been way too many...) and have religiously written down all my maintenance and mileages. I still do, but having the message pop up so I don't have to keep referring back to my log book or keeping it in the back of my mind to see when I'm due on my daily driver is a big help. With a single vehicle it's not so much of a PITA. Too much crapola to keep track of these days. I have ~20 separate passwords for work... If I thought the reminder wasn't accurate, I wouldn't use it. I know it is from testing it the first year or so, so why not use it?

Each vehicle of mine has a small spiral notebook in the console or the glove box. I record the miles, the date, the oil/filter used. All the current road vehicles run Mobil 1 synthetic and get the oil/filter changed every 6,000 miles.

The two older Z28's still use regular oil and get filter/oil change ever 3,000 miles.

 

[HawkX66]

The dark rod , usually means a spun bearing

FWIW, the dark rod has nothing to do with a spun bearing. It's burnt on oil.

 

[07navi]

FWIW, the dark rod has nothing to do with a spun bearing. It's burnt on oil.

I think you guys made that up, in all my years of being a mechanic I never heard that.

 

[rjdelp7]

I think you guys made that up, in all my years of being a mechanic I never heard that.

I just saw an example on a awesome youtube show, called Nick's Garage. It was on his Kowalski 440 Charger engine. The engine spun and broke the rod in two. He showed how it changed color, from heating of the metal.

 

[HawkX66]

I just saw an example on a awesome youtube show, called Nick's Garage. It was on his Kowalski 440 Charger engine. The engine spun and broke the rod in two. He showed how it changed color, from heating of the metal.

Very different scenario and result.