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Meh - that's young! <--- if there's any left in the crank case. I do 10K mile oil change intervals on dino oil - but have oil analysis done to make sure it's still good when it comes out Of course, this varies from engine to engine (even two "identical" engines )
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Yea I agree that 7500 miles is really not that big a deal. In Europe they go lots farther then the marketing kings here at 3000 miles. No oil on the stick that not great.
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So I did the oil change yesterday and, you won't believe what came out of it. Just chunks and chunks of sludge and old oil that looked like metal flakes but when I picked it up it was just crap from oil bi-products.
You guys probably don't know what conditions I drive in. But it's not pretty. I live in a place not even big enough to be called a town so it's actually a village. Only the in town stuff is paved and it's paved by laying down tar, rocks, tar, then rocks again. The rest of the roads are gravel/dirt/mud roads. Everything is dusty and full of chemicals from the power plant and whatever the farmers decide to use nowadays. My whole engine bay is light brown and muddy now. It's not regular conditions and it definitely files under the "change every 3000 miles or so" maintenance schedule. And looking at who maintained the Jeep before me.. really didn't maintain it at all. Fuel isn't supposed to be black when it comes OUT of the fuel filter, and spark plugs aren't supposed to look like they just went into a volcano and back. If I had the vehicle the whole time. I'd probably go with longer intervals, but the vehicle is a little rough right now and needs to be maintained at the best right now. Oil change went well tho, I was kinda surprised and not surprised of what came out of there. Runs easier now, especially since it's cold.
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I'm pretty sure jcwhitney.com sells 'em, or buy from a real parts store. I wouldn't expect the "big box" parts stores to stock them but traditional parts stores, yes. In my area we have NAPA, CarQuest, BumperToBumper - those guys.
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Alright, I'll do a search on that now. I went to Walmart to search for a vacuum guage and had no luck, but I'll check the parts stores and see what they've got.
Cloroplast.. isn't that something in plants?
That should be in hobby stores or something right? in any event I could get something temporary for the moment.