Did I scramble your mind with that?
Somewhat. I vaguely recalled the term but had to look it up again when you said it for clarity. I think I first heard it on some documentary about Rockefeller and Standard oil and how supposedly to make crude oil into a commodities market that he created the myth of scarcity and that is where the so called "Oil came from Dinosaurs" moniker came from.
Marketing ploy that caught on and grew. Say a lie enough times. Most will believe it's true.
So GTL oils? Like Pennzoil synthetic?
Think of how many dinos would have to have lived and died in very specific areas to furnish all the oil that's been extracted to date. You have to discount those that died and rotted away or were eaten by other things like flies and such.
..and then there’s all those oil pockets that don’t have any detectable dinosaur bones that are multiple miles below the surface where the only thing there that ever grew was rocks. I think I recall someone saying that it was all made and put there and he said it was good and he left it to us to pull it out and make it better so we here can pull it out and discuss it.
It only stands to reason if dinosaurs are unearthed nearly at the surface and old conventional wells are 5,000 feet down and marcellus is 10,000 and Uttica is 15,000 feet down it isn't from dinosaurs its many pressed types of vegetation. And dead bugs and dead trees etc.. sure there are probably some animal matter there but as you say it is ...Carbon.
Vegetation was around about 150 million years before any "animal" life (insects and so on).
Which formulation are you running—are you talking PAO-based (polyalphaolefin) Group IV synthetics, or maybe GTL-derived (gas-to-liquid) base stocks like Shell’s Fischer-Tropsch process oils? Just curious—because unless you’re blending your own with metallocene catalysis and custom additive packages, you’re probably just picking up off-the-shelf Group III hydrocracked stuff like the rest of us.
I'm reviving this thread to shed some more light on the sequential pan drop replacement rate and the minimum cost of the ATF.
If you want to risk your transmission for a $248.48, go ahead. Along with a requirement to drop your pan three times, putting more wear on the gasket, and still having mixed fluids with unknown chemistry compatibility. Makes zero sense. Your vehicle, so what you want, but don’t recommend this stuff to others that might take your advice by mistake.
I seem to recognize some of the "number of changes to get to xx%" from a blog run by another guy. He explains it all in detail, based on the capacity, amount of fluid changed, the numbers of changes to get there and so on.
