samaritrey

+1 how could you say such a thing.

On a happy note found a abs modular so it should be here this time next week.

LILBENZ230

Fingers crossed.. I know you hate having to let it sit.

tommy

Have you two picked out a china pattern yet?

LILBENZ230

We did not get married in Vegas..

Now Karo on the other hand..

tommy

Odd choice of words.

Glyn M Ruck

Pleased you found one.

Ah! - can see those long slim Canadian legs have made an impression.

LILBENZ230

On Trey maybe.. but I think it's more along the lines of her huge and technically flawless vocals. Her best look in Vegas was without really showing legs at all:



Pure class.

LILBENZ230

samaritrey

Yeah driving a qx56 is very different then my lovely c320.

LILBENZ230

You think? What year model?

samaritrey

It is an 04 so the one based on the titan truck. I will say that it drive very well for such a big vehicle and stops well too. Lets not talk about fuel mileage that is another story.

samaritrey

So the part came in today and I installed it cleared all the errors and car is great. Put about 10 miles on it and so far so good. So we shall see how long that lasts. I do have a rear shock that is leaking so I need to get a new one as well as fix the dam squeaking brakes lol
It is so nice to drive the benz again I am so ****ing happy right now

Glyn M Ruck

Yes - pitch & more importantly vocal intonation makes her a class act. I originally heard some "from the desk" recordings of her Titanic theme that she was not happy with. Then she got a voice coach who's name escapes me to get the intonation correct & we all know the result!

Glyn M Ruck

Good new! She lives to fight on.

samaritrey

Yeah she lives hopefully for the next 20 years with just oil changes and tires oh and lots of gas

tommy

How rude - how dare you say that about Celine!

samaritrey

OK now who is going to help me get the vanilla coke out of my monitor and new bose computer speakers.

Glyn M Ruck

Tommy likes his women to emit a little "bovine flatulence."

LILBENZ230

That was pretty good, Tommy.. I hope Celine lives on well past just 20 more years, though.

tommy

With enough surgery, I'm sure she'll look the same for the next 40 years or so. There should be enough Canuck visitors in LV annually to keep her in high demand. Now if only Cameron needed a song for "Titanic 2: Judgement Day", she'd really be in business.

LILBENZ230

You forgot the </sarcasm> tag.

samaritrey

So did a transmission flush today that was interesting.
So My car had a pan change at 100K and then again at 139K so this is the first full flush at 171K
So I only used 12 3/4 Quarts of fluid because the fluid looks fine by that point and I wanted some extra to top off just in case my gallon milk container measuring was off.
It took about 5 hours once we started on it till the time we were done but we took about an hour break from really working on it when I cleaned the pan out and did some research on how much a new pan is. Sadly the drain plug was on so tight that we could not get the thing to move so I had to crack the back of the pan loose and try to catch all the fluid as it slowly leaked out. Another interesting thing was that my car does not have the magnet in the bottom of the pan. I actually knew it might not because of the build date but hoped it would. Since all I saw was aluminum stuff I decided that even though I have a magnet coming to the dealer tomorrow that I would save it for next oil change. so I could get my car back on the road... hopefully I don't regret it.
Almost forgot I do have a sample that I will be sending off to Blackstone to see how bad the fluid really was so that will be interesting will post once I have results.











Let me know what you think

LILBENZ230

I'm no expert but that looks good to me given the high mileage.

samaritrey

So I got the results back on the fluid. They did think it was only a partial flush I actually did a full one I guess I didn't write clearly enough. So what do you guys think?

Glyn M Ruck

Trey - The results are good. Nothing to worry about apart from insolubles which are not a train smash. Insolubles can be oxidation by-products or some minor clutch material.

How did you take the sample? Where from & how? There was black muck on your pan. If you sampled from the drain plug that would explain everything.

Taking truly representative samples is an art learned over time. i.e. trying to sample what the unit is seeing in circulation.

So this oil had done 32K miles from a full flush & filter?

I'm pleased they did a TAN as I said in my PM. It shows that oxidation is not out of control. There is some however.