Oil and Filter Change
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From: Mike Romain on 23 Oct 2007 11:22 Nobody Important wrote: > Why do you only tighten the lug nuts finger-tight while the car is in > the air, and wait until it is lowered to tighten them to their final > torque? I always tighten them to their final torques (in a star > pattern) while the car is in the air, and I know that when the car is on > the lift at the service centre, they do the same. Because if you are on 4 jackstands like the OP insists on doing and put torque on the nuts, the odd are 'really' high the car will not be on those stands any longer... Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's - Gone to the rust pile...
From: Built_Well on 23 Oct 2007 11:19 Tegger wrote: > I change the car's oil ever two months ======== Tegger, why do you change your car's oil so often, every 2 months? Are you using conventional oil instead of synthetic? Or are you just traveling 5,000 miles every 2 months?
From: Built_Well on 23 Oct 2007 11:42 Mike Romain wrote: > You seem intent on living dangerously. > > The person who wrote the 'book' is a fool by recommending antiseize on > threads that are supposed to be torqued on dry unless otherwise stated > clearly in the owners manual different. ======== Mike Romain, you are now playing rhetorical games like Mike A. I pointed out that "Auto Upkeep" recommends using anti-seize on the wheel bolt threads, but that my Camry manual does not mention the use of anti-seize, so I won't use any (even though Ray_O has mentioned using it between the hub and mounting surface of the inner wheel). Mike Romain, you, however, are /not/ following standard procedure by using only one stand in the rear end of the car and the jack in the front end when rotating tires. Correct procedure is to always use stands in pairs, and not to have just one side of the car (the left or right side) in the air. It's okay to have one end of the car (the front end or the rear end) in the air, but not okay to have just one side of the car in the air (the left or the right side). You're also using the jack to support the vehicle. You're violating not one, but three rules of safe tire rotating procedure. Three.
From: Tegger on 23 Oct 2007 12:12 Built_Well <Built_Well_Toyota(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:1193152784.344472.278540(a)v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com: > Tegger wrote: > >> I change the car's oil ever two months > ======== > > Tegger, why do you change your car's oil so often, every > 2 months? Are you using conventional oil instead of > synthetic? Or are you just traveling 5,000 miles every > 2 months? > > Wife doesn't drive much (it's her car). Water builds up, oil rarely gets hot enough to drive it all off. I use Castrol GTX 5W-30 in that car. -- Tegger
From: Built_Well on 23 Oct 2007 12:23
Tegger wrote: > Built_Well <Built_Well_Toyota(a)hotmail.com> wrote in > news:1193152784.344472.278540(a)v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com: > > > Tegger wrote: > > > >> I change the car's oil ever two months > > ======== > > > > Tegger, why do you change your car's oil so often, every > > 2 months? Are you using conventional oil instead of > > synthetic? Or are you just traveling 5,000 miles every > > 2 months? > > > > > > > > Wife doesn't drive much (it's her car). Water builds up, oil rarely gets > hot enough to drive it all off. > > I use Castrol GTX 5W-30 in that car. > > -- > Tegger ======== Oh, I see. I guess if the oil never gets hot enough to boil off the water and acids, it takes a toll on the oil. |