Somebody Explain this to me?

steve remchak · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:48 pm

Vincent Keene wrote:

steve remchak wrote:

i change the 15 quarts of oil every 5K miles religiously.

Wow, 15 quarts every 5K miles? Is that the recommended OCI by Ford?

I hate the clatter sound of a diesel more than anything else. However if you need to tow something regularly, the torque is reason enough to buy diesel over gasoline IMO.

on the 6.0 yes. unless i did oil testing, but Ford doesn't suggest that.

RobLupella · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:55 pm

clinehall wrote:

Well, when I am King of the US. We will stop importing oil and become completely energy self sufficiant. We will start usind biofuel extensively.

Not until our elected "leaders" have gotten enough slush money from the oil companies to give them time to buy up all the corn production/switchgrass fields and sources of biofuels. Then they will pass legislation allowing only Shell/Exxon/AP (BP will change its name to American Petroleum so consumers will think they are patriotic) to produce and sell it and the biofuels will cost $5 p/gallon and gas will cost $5.50 p/gal and the companies make more profit on all of them. Oh and an ear of corn to feed your family will cost $5 p/ear and be imported from IRAN who will use the profits for creating the next nuclear holocaust which will lead to ............ but I digress,......what was the topic.....

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:00 pm

RobLupella wrote:

clinehall wrote:

Well, when I am King of the US. We will stop importing oil and become completely energy self sufficiant. We will start usind biofuel extensively.

Not until our elected "leaders" have gotten enough slush money from the oil companies to give them time to buy up all the corn production/switchgrass fields and sources of biofuels. Then they will pass legislation allowing only Shell/Exxon/AP (BP will change its name to American Petroleum so consumers will think they are patriotic) to produce and sell it and the biofuels will cost $5 p/gallon and gas will cost $5.50 p/gal and the companies make more profit on all of them. Oh and an ear of corn to feed your family will cost $5 p/ear and be imported from IRAN who will use the profits for creating the next nuclear holocaust which will lead to ............ but I digress,......what was the topic.....

Guys, this is all a moot point. I read somewhere that if we converted ALL of our food production capability in the US to corn for biofuel, we still wouldn't be able to produce enough fuel to JUST power the tractor-trailers moving freight around the country. Much less the passenger vehicles. And we'd have ZERO food.

Biofuels are cute and all, but they don't solve enough of the problem to be relevant, honestly. It's a good way to make SOMETHING useful out of the fields that are run by government subsidy money anyway (like all these former tobacco fields in NC that the government pays farmers to use for something "less valuable"). It's a good way to get rid of used fryer oil. But it's a drop in the bucket in the "big picture" and that's all it'll ever be.

--Donnie

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:14 pm

Donnie Barnes wrote:

But it's a drop in the bucket in the "big picture" and that's all it'll ever be.

--Donnie

Quoted for truth. There is not one single thing to solve these problems. Well except for dilithium crystals.

RichardNuss · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:11 pm

DickRasmussen wrote:

Were there versions of the VW diesel (early 2000's or so) that needed the intake manifold removed for serious cleaning at fairly low miles (50K or so?)

I have heard about this on a TDI forum. Supposedly is caused by EGR plus PCV residue and folks not driving the car hard enough to keep some airflow in there to keep it clean. My throttle-body had some gunk in it when I changed the timing belt at 90k miles, so I wiped it out. I'll be interested to see what the inside of the intake manif looks like at 180k miles when I do the next belt change, and if needed at that time I'll take it off and get it hot-tanked.

The earlier TDIs also had a shorter timing belt interval, something like 30-60k miles, which would suck. Supposedly with newer belt material you get when you replace the belt on them now, the interval can be 90k like the newer models.

DickRasmussen wrote:

Is the diesel odor completely gone?

The odor is not gone unless you switch to biodiesel. If you're running on straight diesel, the odor will always be there on a cold start (I would think with any diesel), especially in the winter - I only notice it if I start the car when backed into my home garage, or if I have the car door open while starting and wind is blowing the exhaust toward the front of the car.

WalterHouston · **Posted:** Sat Jul 03, 2010 1:20 pm

Ryan Holton wrote:

Donnie Barnes wrote:

But it's a drop in the bucket in the "big picture" and that's all it'll ever be.

--Donnie

Quoted for truth. There is not one single thing to solve these problems. Well except for dilithium crystals.

True and true. Since Greenville is so small, I'd like a plug in electric car and more new technology nuclear power plants. I wish the bugs could be worked out of the hydrogen fuel cell technology.

I'm not much of a tree hugger, but see the value of reducing our carbon footprint. I'll probably always put people and jobs over the snail darter and some frozen tundra, but we can do better.

The volcano under Yellow Stone is going to wipe us all out anyway if an asteroid doesn't do it first.

DickRasmussen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:18 pm

WalterHouston wrote:

Ryan Holton wrote:

Donnie Barnes wrote:

But it's a drop in the bucket in the "big picture" and that's all it'll ever be.

--Donnie

Quoted for truth. There is not one single thing to solve these problems. Well except for dilithium crystals.

True and true. Since Greenville is so small, I'd like a plug in electric car and more new technology nuclear power plants. I wish the bugs could be worked out of the hydrogen fuel cell technology.

I'm not much of a tree hugger, but see the value of reducing our carbon footprint. I'll probably always put people and jobs over the snail darter and some frozen tundra, but we can do better.

The volcano under Yellow Stone is going to wipe us all out anyway if an asteroid doesn't do it first.

Actually, old age or other "natural our body broke" stuff will wipe out most of us long before anything else has a chance . . . :lol:

Dick

Bernie Baake · **Posted:** Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:21 pm

RichardNuss wrote:

DickRasmussen wrote:

Were there versions of the VW diesel (early 2000's or so) that needed the intake manifold removed for serious cleaning at fairly low miles (50K or so?)

I have heard about this on a TDI forum. Supposedly is caused by EGR plus PCV residue and folks not driving the car hard enough to keep some airflow in there to keep it clean. My throttle-body had some gunk in it when I changed the timing belt at 90k miles, so I wiped it out. I'll be interested to see what the inside of the intake manif looks like at 180k miles when I do the next belt change, and if needed at that time I'll take it off and get it hot-tanked.

The TDI forum is right on the money. The 8v92 diesels on the hatteras and the caterpillars on my charter boat both required cleaning of the intakes turbo's, blowers and intercoolers every year or so. All caused by blow by in the crankcase. I guess the blowby is greater because of the higher compression engine.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:07 am

October 2011. mass Porsche 911S purchasing...............

bring on the Mayans.

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