What's the stupidest advice you've ever heard?
#32
08-09-2012 | 01:03 PM
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Actually my math is not off. I regularly got 200K out of an engine with no oil changes. Back a few years I was driving just shy of 70K a yr on a 4.9 EFI/5spd. I am on my 4th engine in that truck. Every 1 of them has got a minimum of 200K. I might have changed the oil once or twice but nothing more than that. Still have that truck, empty or loaded she gets the same for mileage until I get above 55 (it's just geared that way). I get right around 18 in town & up to 22 on the road.
I personally have seen very few gas engines go beyond 300K regardless of how they are treated. I also have a 4.3 S10 Blazer (daily driver) that is hugging 175K & hasn't seen an oil change in at least 3 yrs. Not a single sign of wear (noise or large oil leaks). It uses a qt every now & then but I would expect that out of 175K. It gets 17.2 mpg, the entire time I have owned it.
Ironically I do change the oil in my toy (1970 SWB F100, 460cid).
I personally have seen very few gas engines go beyond 300K regardless of how they are treated. I also have a 4.3 S10 Blazer (daily driver) that is hugging 175K & hasn't seen an oil change in at least 3 yrs. Not a single sign of wear (noise or large oil leaks). It uses a qt every now & then but I would expect that out of 175K. It gets 17.2 mpg, the entire time I have owned it.
Ironically I do change the oil in my toy (1970 SWB F100, 460cid).
#33
08-09-2012 | 02:32 PM
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I was workin on my ford and the float kept gettin stuck, my friend told me to grab a hammer and "Smack" it a few times. I wouldent do it so he grabbed the hammer and "smacked" it and cracked the carb in 3 different places... He bought me a junk yard 1bbl and a rebuild kit and and I showed him how to rebuild a 1bbl carb and explained to him why the hammer was a bad idear...
#34
08-09-2012 | 02:38 PM
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#35
08-09-2012 | 02:46 PM
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#38
08-09-2012 | 03:39 PM
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I was workin on my ford and the float kept gettin stuck, my friend told me to grab a hammer and "Smack" it a few times. I wouldent do it so he grabbed the hammer and "smacked" it and cracked the carb in 3 different places... He bought me a junk yard 1bbl and a rebuild kit and and I showed him how to rebuild a 1bbl carb and explained to him why the hammer was a bad idear...
Lightly tap, tap... NEVER hit pot metal with a hammer, metal to metal. Yikes...
#39
08-09-2012 | 05:29 PM
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#42
08-09-2012 | 09:59 PM
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I was at a gun store the other day and saw the clerk explaining to a couple why one particular shotgun was better for home defense because it's better for shooting from the hip. Then he explained why you'd want to carry it at the hip for clearing the house. 
I should have gone over and explained to all of them how wrong everything coming out of his mouth was. I could start a whole multi-page thread about home defense and how wrong all his advice was but this is a truck forum so I'll leave it alone except to say that of you think there is an intruder in your home DON'T clear the house. Barricade in place and call the cops. If there are other family members in the house quickly and carefully move to them and get everyone in the same room and barricade in and wait for the police.
I should have gone over and explained to all of them how wrong everything coming out of his mouth was. I could start a whole multi-page thread about home defense and how wrong all his advice was but this is a truck forum so I'll leave it alone except to say that of you think there is an intruder in your home DON'T clear the house. Barricade in place and call the cops. If there are other family members in the house quickly and carefully move to them and get everyone in the same room and barricade in and wait for the police.
#43
08-09-2012 | 10:05 PM
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I was at a gun store the other day and saw the clerk explaining to a couple why one particular shotgun was better for home defense because it's better for shooting from the hip. Then he explained why you'd want to carry it at the hip for clearing the house. I should have gone over and explained to all of them how wrong everything coming out of his mouth was. I could start a whole multi-page thread about home defense and how wrong all his advice was but this is a truck forum so I'll leave it alone except to say that of you think there is an intruder in your home DON'T clear the house. Barricade in place and call the cops. If there are other family members in the house quickly and carefully move to them and get everyone in the same room and barricade in and wait for the police.
I should have gone over and explained to all of them how wrong everything coming out of his mouth was. I could start a whole multi-page thread about home defense and how wrong all his advice was but this is a truck forum so I'll leave it alone except to say that of you think there is an intruder in your home DON'T clear the house. Barricade in place and call the cops. If there are other family members in the house quickly and carefully move to them and get everyone in the same room and barricade in and wait for the police.
That's not a facepalm for what he was saying, that's a facepalm for what you were saying.
