Maintenance items i like to use

[Bjl8691]

Ive had great results over the years using these maintenance items Fluids I like to use on my 3 ex's brembo dot 5.1 liqui moly or pentosin 5w30 syn motorcraft gold coolant valvoline syn power 75/140 Castrol full syn transmax
Mahle gaskets
Hengst and Bosch filters
Akebono and brembo brake pads
Bilstein and Sachs shocks
Raybestos specialty and power stop rotors

 

[BUXTER]

My Fave Chart

Napa Adaptive Brake Pads best I've ever found.

 

[donalds]

For me
Oil ask the forum and why
Parts motorcraft learned that lesson I should have asked the forum
Tires ask the forum

I like to learn from other people's mistakes and my own
Lol

 

[MrQ]

For me
Oil ask the forum and why

Please don't. Those oil arguments last for pages and don't tell you anything other than "You are dumb if you don't buy my preferred XYZ brand because I got 30 mpg out of a 20 year old engine and it feels smoother". Or the synthetic vs dino vs blend and moly debate. Then its the expensive oil fanboys chiming in: Amsoil this, Redline that, and Royal Purple here. Or worst of all, when the "engineers" start up and then the argument just turns into a nuclear fallout.

Ugh.

TLDR; asking which oil to use in a forum will get you nothing but headaches and drama. The SOHC gets synthetic because of the timing chains and OHV's can take last nights fryer oil and still run 5k miles on it. If the brand is API certified, dump it in and go.

 

[RickOTR]

Lord mother mary jesus, please no more oil arguments. Akebono and Raybestos pads can't be beat though.

 

[donalds]

Lmao

 

[C420sailor]

If it’s ignition, lower control arms, or generally a PITA to get to, Motorcraft or bust.

 

[Bjl8691]

Please don't. Those oil arguments last for pages and don't tell you anything other than "You are dumb if you don't buy my preferred XYZ brand because I got 30 mpg out of a 20 year old engine and it feels smoother". Or the synthetic vs dino vs blend and moly debate. Then its the expensive oil fanboys chiming in: Amsoil this, Redline that, and Royal Purple here. Or worst of all, when the "engineers" start up and then the argument just turns into a nuclear fallout.

Ugh.

TLDR; asking which oil to use in a forum will get you nothing but headaches and drama. The SOHC gets synthetic because of the timing chains and OHV's can take last nights fryer oil and still run 5k miles on it. If the brand is API certified, dump it in and go.

We probably will agree new Fresh oil is the best oil for arguments sake

 

[Bjl8691]

If it’s ignition, lower control arms, or generally a PITA to get to, Motorcraft or bust.

Agreed on the LCA's
lemforder by zf friedrichshafen ag makes some good tie rod ends and ball joints

 

[MrQ]

We probably will agree new Fresh oil is the best oil for arguments sake

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure somebody out there has suggested using used oil at some point. Those posts are magnets and you really, really don't want a person new to cars to ask it as it will put them off the car community and stick them in therapy for a year.

 

[Bjl8691]

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure somebody out there has suggested using used oil at some point. Those posts are magnets and you really, really don't want a person new to cars to ask it as it will put them off the car community and stick them in therapy for a year.

so true Bob's oil guy site had some heated threads over the years