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    mikeru82 reacted to SD Rebel's post in the thread Coolant loss with Haha Haha.
    True, hopefully it's the cooler, which is a much easier less expensive thing to fix, still sucks but way less than head gadget.
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    mikeru82 replied to the thread Coolant loss.
    Agreed. Nothing is worse than messing with that pesky head gadget. :ROFLMAO:
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    mikeru82 replied to the thread Oil in coolant.
    We're talking about possible oil in the coolant not combustion gasses. That would be a different type of head gasket failure. Head...
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    mikeru82 replied to the thread Oil change monitor.
    If it was simple math, 5% of 10,000 miles would be 500 miles. From what I've seen, if you don't use your truck for towing or drive in...
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    mikeru82 reacted to SD Rebel's post in the thread Oil change monitor with Like Like.
    It isn't a straight count down, it depends on your driving habits, but if you have a 1900 trip coming up, I would get it done now. To...
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    mikeru82 reacted to kapinallinen2's post in the thread Oil change monitor with Like Like.
    Change it before the trip. I do an oil and filter when it says 50% life left, usually around 5k miles.
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    mikeru82 reacted to 1791's post in the thread Oil change monitor with Like Like.
    😮 you let you monitor get down to 5%. if you care about the truck and want it to last best thing to do is change it every 5000 miles...
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    mikeru82 reacted to WXman's post in the thread 5w20 vs 5w30 with Like Like.
    Well well well... what do we have here? I've been saying for years that 20-weight oils are too thin for V8 engines, especially in...
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    mikeru82 replied to the thread Oil in coolant.
    If that is oil in your coolant it stands to reason that there would be coolant in your oil. How does the oil look?
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    mikeru82 reacted to USMUSL's post in the thread Oil in coolant with Like Like.
    Others will pipe in, but I’m not convinced that’s oil. Perhaps it is. My bet is that there was no oil in it, and the tech who said...
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