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Old 08-24-2017, 07:55 PM   #1
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I show my age when I say it also really doesn't seem right to go 7500+ miles between changes, but that's what the books say to do with our modern stuff.
Higher running temperatures, lower viscosity and better quality oil, etc. Much longer engine life. It's nothing to get over 200,000 miles out of an engine now.
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Old 08-24-2017, 10:55 PM   #2
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It's nothing to get over 200,000 miles out of an engine now.
Or apparently then... G.M. is well on his way to that milestone!
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Or apparently then... G.M. is well on his way to that milestone!
The engine may make it but at 85 I doubt I will. G.M.
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