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It’s interesting to me that some people struggle to believe that Manufacturers make specifications and maintenance recommendations based on government mandates, marketing research, and the ownership habits of likely purchasers, rather than to achieve the greatest practical terminal performance...

You guys could be right. You could win the lottery too. I have gone 200k miles on a lots of Mopar transmissions and never been in them. I’m talking about the Dodge mega-meme models too like the 4xTE, xxRFEs and a 68RFE behind a Cummins. I have ALWAYs viscuously abused them while everyone...

If it’s wax-petroleum based and not a paint or polymer product, I would buy it, even for $500. A good quality do-it-yourself cavity wax or cosmoline type product will cost you $200-400, just for the material.

I spill and fill all my transmissions every 30k’ish miles. Never had a ZF trans issue, and I’m very hard on them. As a layman, taking your time, you could do it yourself on your back in about three hours, including cleanup. The OEM fluid and filter will cost about $150. You can decide what...

Thank you for posting legitimately helpful information.

Update. I’m approaching 15,000 miles and my next oil change interval. I’ll be sending another sample for analysis and we should get some more data to review. I’ll post the results in this thread same as last time. Wollmart did not have M1-0w40 Euro, so I bought and will use Rotella T6 5w40 for...

Tangentially related. I manually short shifted mine for a few days over about 200 miles. I was hoping that suffering through the slower acceleration and anemia would net substantially higher MPG. Essentially created my own “eco” trans mode. Less than 2000rpm max, and tried to hold it near...

Another couple thoughtful questions that may trigger the koolaid drinkers: 1.) Does anyone know how many more kWh the utilities will need to create in order to replace the gasoline vehicles? 2.) Does anyone know how many new power plants that will require? 3.) Is it true that the US...

We are losing sight of the forests with all this chatter back and forth. Let's get back on track. EVs can be very very fast. That is the only neat thing about them --and they sound like garbage doing the one thing they do really well. Otherwise, they are lifeless, vanilla, soul sucking...

Triggered. Shamefully false equivalency. No one was advocating for any of the government actions you described. Much the opposite. Let’s let free people and free markets pick winners and losers. Personally, I probably agree with most of what you do. I’m just quite convinced governments and...

Ahh, yes. The joys of virtue signaling. Simple payback on solar’s real first cost in the US (absent gov welfare), runs 14-18 years. So yes, unless you bought solar commando style, a lot of years ago (and we don’t include module, roof, maintenance, insurance, inverter replacement or finance...

All of the above, and, well, you know, that other little issue, the one we’re all trying to avoid…the Lightning is kind of stupid. And that whole part about the consumer never asking for expensive and inconvenient EVs.

Very cool.

Sounds like a lifter/lash adjuster that’s not fully expanding on start. Irritating, but I wouldn’t worry about it unless it got much worse. I run 0w40 oil in my Pentastar without worry. I don’t subscribe to the phaser or “too tight clearances” chatter —It’s silly and not supported by any...

That would be a very nice product, but I don’t know that it exists for a Dana 44, or any traditional solid axle. There are some trick digital clutch LSD/Lockable styles the Germans use on the M, S, and AMG cars, and maybe Ford used a similar style in the Focus RS. All of them I’ve seen have...

The lockers have their place, but for everything except very technical off-road, the lockers are junk. A clutch or helical LSD is much nicer. You never have to hit a button and never have to worry about it being arbitrarily disabled by the computer. When I need to make the rear end light or...

Indeed, the Hurricanes should be a great engine. I hope it’s modeled after the B58. The pricing still needs to come down or the average income needs to go up before they’ll sell in large numbers. Even if interest rates tank. You are throwing shade on an entire “protected” and...

So show us then? Show us the huge 3/4” longer axle housing next to a regular peasant housing, and then mathematically demonstrate how that 1.5” changes the entire character and purpose of the the Gladiator in a meaningful way. Are your bearings bigger? Are they a higher spec? Walk us through...

MaxTow on the Gladiator is not a serious option. It’s a poser pose. “Oh, my axles are 0.5” wider than you regular losers”. And, “I have a big electric fan”. “My fenders have a plastic lip …suckers.” No one here can actually show you, in a photo, where that extra 0.5 in comes from on the...

Bravo sir. Not my style but damn, you deserve a hat tip and this forum’s respect for actually doing something original and productive. This is a place for mostly azzclowns parroting what they read from other azzclowns. The hidden treasure is that there are some really great contributors...