Synthetic Oil

Burla said:

I'm so clueless, I had no idea what all this Stellantis talk was about, lol. This is their stated goal, my last joke has more truth to it then I even thought at the time...

The company has 400,000 employees, a presence in more than 130 countries with manufacturing facilities in 30 countries.[6] The group plans to have 39 electrified vehicles available by the end of 2021.

I swear these numbwits just don't get it. Think what is happening in Texas and CA is a fluke? This will be imported to every town USA. Talk about putting the cart BEFORE the horse!!! If you numbwits want to make electric vehicles because of your captain save-a-ho bulljive, why not make the electric grid able to accept this strategy FIRST.

My buddy had the right idea, he bought 40 acres well north of this ses pool and is planting a olive grove. Put his home inside a steel barn, lol. Everyone is laughing at him, he will get the last laugh this I promise you.

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He put it in a steel barn? Did he build the steel barn around his house or just using the barn has a house? If it were me I would have built a green house around the house. It would be a lot more useful.

Michael said:

He put it in a steel barn? Did he build the steel barn around his house or just using the barn has a house? If it were me I would have built a green house around the house. It would be a lot more useful.

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He built the steel barn and got all the permits for it, then framed inside and put his house in there. I told him to just pay the 5k permits for the house, but he is particular, lol.

poached this pic from 3rd gen

Burla said:

poached this pic from 3rd gen

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Don’t you mean pooched, not poached? [emoji12]

Stefan N said:

Sounds ok

"Stellantis will continue to sell and develop the next generation of Dodge//SRT-branded vehicles, as well as Jeep and Ram vehicles that utilize high-performance SRT technology."

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Famous last words.

tjfdesmo said:

Makita-mobiles don't do it for me, no matter what the numbers are.

My cousin was a draftsman at Mack Truck back when Renault took over. Not good. My buddy was at AMC/Jeep when they took that over. Not good. They simply do not understand the American market, and/or are blinded by their arrogance.

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You hating on Makita!!???
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tjfdesmo said:

Makita-mobiles don't do it for me, no matter what the numbers are.

My cousin was a draftsman at Mack Truck back when Renault took over. Not good. My buddy was at AMC/Jeep when they took that over. Not good. They simply do not understand the American market, and/or are blinded by their arrogance.

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Neither did Fiat. Thought they'd sell a bunch of 0500 junkers. New gen peeps had to learn the hard way again. Seen one of those lately?

Here's the Peugeot I remember from my youth. We used to laugh at them -

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Reminds me of a Sachs-Dolmar

tjfdesmo said:

Reminds me of a Sachs-Dolmar

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Because it IS

Makita owns them. Dolmar is no more. Makita continued the legacy and IMPROVED it.


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Growing up made in Japan was a total joke, now being made in Japan is as good as made in Germany, of course makita is no longer made in Japan. Now, they are made all over the world. They are a step up above chinese made ryobi and porter cable imo. My polisher is Makita, I like it a ton. For some reason when I put my tool chest together I decided on Dewalt for most of my tools, I think Malita was my second choice, just ended up with dewy's. Porter cable is pretty good as well despite being made in China. I have had good luck with the brand. I think outsourcing has confused the marketplace where tools could be made anywhere.

Every car I detailed for 4 years was using that polisher, plus the guy I also had helping out. That was a lot of cars.

30 to 45f below averages, lol. Global warming my eye, total bulljive, but are we on the edge of a new ice age?





Anomalous winter storms worldwide: Moscow hit by worst snowfall in decades – Snow record in Seattle – Greece beaches covered in white as cold front Medea engulfs Europe

Who is using 0w20 now? Good strategy imo.

Snowiest day in Seattle in 52 years, 0w20 fellas, 0w20 your rides.

Burla said:

Who is using 0w20 now? Good strategy imo.

Snowiest day in Seattle in 52 years, 0w20 fellas, 0w20 your rides.

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I will be trying RL 0w20 next winter...

Burla said:

30 to 45f below averages, lol. Global warming my eye, total bulljive, but are we on the edge of a new ice age?





Anomalous winter storms worldwide: Moscow hit by worst snowfall in decades – Snow record in Seattle – Greece beaches covered in white as cold front Medea engulfs Europe

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Not to put a damper on this but global warming is happening, and humans are contributing about 1.8* per year to the natural increase.

The large “mega storms” and hotter summers/colder winters are being chased by the acceleration in the destabilization of the atmosphere. This is something that normally occurs during the history of the earth, we are just accelerating the process.

I have a family member who is an atmospheric meteorologist and his spent his adult life studying the effects of the human and our emission on the atmosphere and the climate. His data shows we are speeding up earths natural process and the winters will get worse and summers will get hotter. All this causes the polar ice caps to release more cold fresh water into the oceans cause shifts in the atmosphere and our weather patterns.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/climate.nasa.gov/resources/global-warming-vs-climate-change.amp

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L 4x4
Amsoil SS 0W-40

It couldn't possibly matter, the world is burning carbon so fast we will be out much sooner then the 60 years they used to predict. The policy that allowed China to go from 1/2 our carbon to now double and soon triple will suck the oil out of this erf before we all know it.

Which really puzzles me how our engine oil is so cheap, lol. Oil should cost 3 times as much and then some, they got the spigots on full blast. The fact nobody is allowing for renewable to take over like brazil does, just proves the only good long term strategy is to have solar panels and an electric car in your driveway. Or move somewhere warm unless you like walking in the snow, future generations of your family will appreciate you for moving their future in a warm place. Have any extra money, buy cheap land south of your locations and sit on it. Some guy has some swamp land he will sell ya, lol.

Don't toss your old oil, some day you will be dropping in CA and using it again. Now they say 47 years oil clock in 2016. Good news for me, no way I got 42 years left, yaw'lls problem. Your kids problem for sure, one of many. Buy land, the only real currency to help them.

my closest friend not only grows his food and can trade olive oil for goods and services, but he can use it in a diesel if needed, or should I say when needed. 20 acres can support a family in a warm place.

AFMoulton said:

Not to put a damper on this but global warming is happening, and humans are contributing about 1.8* per year to the natural increase.

The large “mega storms” and hotter summers/colder winters are being chased by the acceleration in the destabilization of the atmosphere. This is something that normally occurs during the history of the earth, we are just accelerating the process.

I have a family member who is an atmospheric meteorologist and his spent his adult life studying the effects of the human and our emission on the atmosphere and the climate. His data shows we are speeding up earths natural process and the winters will get worse and summers will get hotter. All this causes the polar ice caps to release more cold fresh water into the oceans cause shifts in the atmosphere and our weather patterns.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/climate.nasa.gov/resources/global-warming-vs-climate-change.amp

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L 4x4
Amsoil SS 0W-40

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Good Ted Talk

That's the biggest point....people hear "global WARMING" and say "FALSE!" because the weather is getting colder, not hotter. But they are just looking at the small picture....not the huge ass glacier that is usually frozen in place, warming up enough to break off and end up in ocean water. Huge ass ice + water = COLDER water.

My kid is currently doing a research paper on global warming, so hopefully he learns a lot more about it than he knows. Considering it will be his generation (and the one he parents) that has to deal with the real effects....Ill be long gone by that time.

Back to syn lubes...........if'n I ever get to some halfway normal mileage again, I will be doing 2 engine oil changes annually - (1) RL 5W-30 summer (2) RL 0W-30 winter.

Why 0W-30 instead of 0W-20? Like what we see in Texas now, Minnesota temps do not closely track the historical average line - they bounce up and down all over the place, so we can have a stretch of warm whether where people are doing summer things in March, and need the 30 wt for trailer pulling on occasion. Same thing during hunting season in Oct. & Nov. 0W-30 isn't a great summer oil at all, I'd switch.

But I've gone from 40,000 miles per year in field service to 18,000 miles per year in factory engineering, to 12,000 miles a year in retirement, to 4,000 miles a year during COVID, so who knows what this year will be like.

chrisbh17 said:

Good Ted Talk

That's the biggest point....people hear "global WARMING" and say "FALSE!" because the weather is getting colder, not hotter. But they are just looking at the small picture....not the huge ass glacier that is usually frozen in place, warming up enough to break off and end up in ocean water. Huge ass ice + water = COLDER water.

My kid is currently doing a research paper on global warming, so hopefully he learns a lot more about it than he knows. Considering it will be his generation (and the one he parents) that has to deal with the real effects....Ill be long gone by that time.

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Whether it is or isn't happening is completely irrelevant to the future of the earth, because indeed it is not renewable and this era wont even be a blip in the geological cycles of earth. In fact if we want to bring science into the conversation, the earth is at it's lowest co2 levels then any other era. In the long burn of time, the next 40 years will long forgotten. If you look at the dips and valley's, it does suggest Jeff is right, that there appears to be a correlation to earths temp versus co2 level, however the earth has thrived with more co'2 then we will ever have again in human history. Although there is a correlation it also appears there are forces that effect global temperature much more then co2 or any greenhouse gasses could effect.




I agree 100% regardless that conserving resources is and should be the goal of all gov'ts, but it seams that our gov't only wants us to conserve resources while encouraging other countries to burn as much as possible, thus the very nature of division. Instead of making it a divisive thing with fear based politics, we should have just had a discussion that conserving is a good way to be a Stewart of earths resources. That everyone could get behind, or should get behind. Short oci's, maybe not the way we should be conserving resources. I will stick with my 2 year 10k mile oci and due my part.

Good time to talk about how to safely boost interval, bgmoa is the real deal, read about it. I believe I will be using it in the second year of my interval just an insurance for tbn. A very interesting development of bgmoa, they now claim it is a lspi safe product. I'm not sure I buy that, but clearly for all ram engines it would be a safe product and imo beneficial. And btw let's not forget they put moly in it...

voa bgmoa

ALUMINUM 2
CHROMIUM 0
IRON 5
COPPER 0
LEAD 1
TIN 0
MOLYBDENUM 120
NICKEL 0
MANGANESE 0
SILVER 0
TITANIUM 0
POTASSIUM 0
BORON 9
SILICON 8
SODIUM 3
CALCIUM 11390
MAGNESIUM 50
PHOSPHORUS 1323
ZINC 1429
BARIUM 0


cSt Viscosity @ 100°C 60.1
SUS Viscosity @ 210°F 10.25
Flashpoint in °F 340
Fuel % -
Antifreeze % -
Water % 0
Insolubles % 0.2
TBN 18.6

Why you don't add bgmoa at the same time you change your oil is because CA denatures in use, even though it reads in a uoa, it is less effective. This is why you see the CA level high in uoa's but the tbn low, the CA is still there but has lost it's detergency value. So boosting fresh CA 1/2 way though an interval would be the better strategy imo. No joke from now on my ram gets redline 5w30 year round with bgmoa 1/2 way through interval. I have one on hand, will be at least 1/2 case when I see a deal.