We Want Pre-lubers!!!

 

Hi,

So far my accord is pizza-free but you never know....

 

My friend has a 1990 Honda CRX 1300 HF with 270,000 miles that gets used to deliver pizzas every night. Keeps on going. The original owner (from whom he bought the car) used Mobil1 synthetic since the very first oil change.

I started using Mobil1 at around 60,000 miles in my 96 Accord. I just recently sold the car with 165,000 miles running just as solid as it did the day I bought it. Never once had a single engine problem!

I'm going to run dino oil in the 06 for the first 10-15,000 miles and then convert over to Mobil1.

 

Cool. So, I'll stick to Mobil 1 then.

 

I agree. The oil film left on the journals is enough to prevent metal to metal contact for the 1-2 seconds it takes for oil presure ot come up. Remember the oil pump is positive displacement and oil is non-compressible so oil will flow to the bottom end almost immediately, and to the top end a few seconds later.

I think the difference by adding a aftermarket pump would be going from an engine that lasts 200k miles to increasing it's life to 220k before a rebuild. If you look at it from a return on investment... it's probably cheaper to plan on having the engine rebuild 10% sooner. Put you money in a low risk Mutual Fund .... you'll make more money.

Also, an auxiliary pump is also one additonal item that can fail, leak and needs maintaining.

 

Priming the fuel pump may not be super important, if your fuel pump check valve is OK. But in addition...

During those couple seconds, you can watch the idiot lights on the dashboard. It would be a good thing for you to know whether your oil pressure warning bulb is working or burned out... Same with CEL, etc...

 

All of those tips are overkill and pointless. Changing your oil every 3k miles would make any oil company shareholder giggle. If you keep your car under 4k RPMs its entire life, not only are you wasting your car's potential but the rings and seals are designed for use well beyond the redline. They don't just build these things and throw them into production...they're tested exhaustively.

I read your post and I said to myself 'that's basically like saying any motor will last forever, if you never drive your car and leave it in the shed for 50 years.'

 

You're not supposed to do that?


Hey, you know I respect your opinion, but I have to disagree somewhat with you. Although I do look at the driving habits of many people, age of the cars, condition, etc., and wonder how the things are running this long. Example-

Saturday I see this 60+ year old man get into his late 80's conversion van at a store. He cranks it up, and the engine has not even come back down to idle RPM and he's slammed it into drive and is driving off.

I'm wondering to myself how the thing is still running, much less not smoking, etc., when I say to myself, "ahh, it's a Chevy. The transmission has been replaced once, rebuilt once, and it's got 34,000 miles on the thing.



I know what you are saying, but if you are intent on keeping a car "forever", then babying it as much as you can won't hurt, IMO.

Hey, I like to push it to it's potential every now and then, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

 

Haha nah man I beat the shit out of my car on an almost daily basis, proper maintenance is the key to long life IMO.

I'm going to be doing a compression test as soon as my tester comes in from harbor freight (maybe this week), I'll post up a DIY with the results and I guess we'll see if my method is bad news or not

 

lol@ do not abuse motor.