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[MChalkley]

Sorry Sir King Rat, I just assumed that since I was the one that used the "meaningless drivel" line a couple times in one of my posts, he was talking to me. Under that circumstance, I'd still have thought so, even if he'd directed his comments to Bird. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Mark

 

[richh]

Can you bring me up to speed on these filters, by-pass???? I repeat car quest auto parts store sells a 15/40 that is,IM told made by valvolin, exceads all ratings for CAT, JD Cummings ect. cost $1.00 a qt. You can aford to change your oil alot and then burn it and heat your house!!
RICH

 

[MChalkley]

Richh, bypass filters are separate add-on filters that pass a very small quantity of oil but filter it much cleaner than the standard full-flow filters. They're called bypass filters because, unlike full-flow filters, they don't have to filter all the oil being pumped through the engine at once - they just extract a small portion of it. Full-flow filters are limited in their filtering capability by the amount of oil they have to pass - if they slow the oil down too much the engine doesn't get lubricated.

I'm still not sure of the relevance of the price of Valvoline where you live. Better or lower quality and higher or lower price are, to me, quite unrelated. They're both factors needing consideration, but not at all related. If something's better, it's better, whether it's more expensive or not. The question then becomes "Is it enough better to just the difference in cost?" For me, the answer is a no-brainer "Yes". For you, the answer may be quite different.

Mark

 

[MChalkley]

Actually, I happen to own a very sensitive '93 Dodge W250 4x4 that has on several occasions exhibited the tendency to trample folks who make fun of it because it squeaks and rattles. If I'd have wanted a ride like a Lincoln, I'd have bought a Lincoln, now wouldn't I? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

I don't need no stinkin' pansy truck. I've got a VW diesel to play that part. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Mark

 

[gordon]

Mark tough as nails yes but sensitive? The trailer haulers mainly use dodge diesels and run them until 300,000 to 400,000 miles then trade them in the only problems they complained of was the transmissions. Not to bad I'd say.
Oh yea thats with dino oil sorry.

 

[MChalkley]

Yeah, you know, like the guys in the shaving commercials - manly, yet sensitive.

And isn't it a credit to the Cummins that they'll last that long, even on dino fat? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

As you say, the transmissions were a weak spot in the early Dodge Cummins trucks. My '93 has the new NV-5600 6-speed in it (and it wasn't pretty getting it shoe-horned in there, either). After I trashed the Getrag at 110k, I decided to put a real transmission in it. In a couple weeks, it's going to get a carbon fiber clutch disk with a custom 3600 lb pressure plate rated for 1000 ft-lbs of torque. That ought to get all the torque to the ground. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Mark

 

[_RaT_]

Dear Mr Chalkley, you to Gordon, please accept my sincerest apology with regards to your Dodge truck. I'm sure your trucks are lovely. You certainly don't have to contiunuely remind me, Dodge trucks squeak for themselves. So in my most sincere typing voice, I'm so sorry about the squeak and rattle comment, it was uncalled for, please accept my apology.

P.S. You know how one often associates a face to a voice, like when you make a call and a woman answers and you try to asscociate a face to the voice you hear. I kinda do that here. At first I thought Mr Chalkley to be sophisticated, smart, full of common sense, suave even. After the Dodge truck posts I've read from him, that vision has changed to one of a guy with missing teeth and empty Bud cans in the pickup bed. The smart and common sense attributes still apply. Uh oh, gotta go, the off topic police are coming, or is it the meaningless drivel marshall, they both look alike, Sincerely, Rat...

 

[JimBinMI]

Mark "Chalkey" Chalkley,

If you only had a dime for every time someone typed or said your name wrong...huh! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

JimBinMI

 

[MChalkley]

It's not a very common name. So uncommon, in fact, that I have many opportunities to say "Call me anything you like, as long as you call me in time for dinner."

Mark

 

[MChalkley]

Dear No-longer-titled Peasant Rat: No apology necessary - no offense taken. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

My Dodge does squeak. But it also roars. When I hook it up to something and try to pull it, it moves. And I wouldn't consider trading it for any 2000 Chevy pickup they make. Shucks, I wouldn't even consider trading it for any 2000 Ford pickup they make. However, if you could buy a Ford with the Cummins in it, I'd be jealous. That's what I really wanted when I bought the Dodge. But to get the Cummins, I had to buy a Dodge. I'm not sorry - it's been a good truck. But I still prefer Fords otherwise. It's just that a Ford with no engine in it isn't much of a truck, and I don't consider the Powerstroke in anywhere near a similar class. I don't look down on folks who own and love Powerstrokes, I don't badmouth them, I don't have any derogatory bumper stickers on my truck, I don't goose it a little extra as I blow past them on the mountains with double the load they're carrying (yes, mine's been tweaked a little...), I just wouldn't have one myself. I'm glad there are lots of people who like them fine - the competition keeps the price down - but I'm not one of them.

Oh, by the way, the only time I'm missing teeth, is when I put on the black-out to get in character when I'm driving my truck. The rest of the time I have all of them - my original ones, even. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Mark