Holy Cow look at this worthless invention!

[VileZambonie]

http://prelube.com/powrlube350.html

this is almost as stupid as the differential pinion bearing link someone posted the other day.

[eventhorizon66]

LOL.  Gravity is alot cheaper and more reliable.

[choptop]

Still gotta change the filter ( getting under it anyway, may as well pull the plug while you're there) What happens when then cheap flexible line breaks and all you oil drains out going down the highway. Ive seen steel braided hoses brake at the connector, plastic hose??? I dont think so.
  Besides, $349 will buy about 10 oil changes easily.

[87OldYeller]

Well in my days back of working at autozone i seen all kinds of crap like that but the best one was, so old guy told me that the best way was to remover the oil filter, and start the engine, that it would blow all the oil right out. (Really ya think)

[Stewart G Griffin]

So, what is this thing supposed to do?

[SUX2BU99]

this is almost as stupid as the differential pinion bearing link someone posted the other day.

You mean this one? http://www.bernardembden.com/xjs/diff/index.htm

[VileZambonie]

Yeah that's the one. You can concoct whatever you want to try and get around measuring pinion bearing preload but there's only one way to do it. Otherwise use witness marks

[SUX2BU99]

Yeah it's obviously not as precise as getting in the diff but for a home-brew method I thought it somewhat ingenious. If it fixed his problem, is it all that bad? I emailed him to ask just how much mileage he's put on his car since he did that though. You can post lots of how-to's on the net, but how well it works out in the end is another story. He might have put too much pre-load on his bearings and destroyed them.

[Lt.Del]

You can post lots of how-to's on the net, but how well it works out in the end is another story

well, here's a how-to.   How to impress your wife that you do in fact have interior decorating skills, AND, how to find a place to store those old engine parts laying around taking up extra space, at the same time....And, a good place to store wine bottles.  Now, that's killing three birds with one shot.


 

[Irish_Alley]

i wonder how many people will run the engine then when its warm remove the oil with the pump forgetting about turning the engine off or they think they might kill their battery?

[VileZambonie]

Sux, he basically tightened the nut a little more. lol

[SUX2BU99]

^ True, that's all he did. The whole scale thing he made up was rather interesting. If I were to do that (and I'm not saying I will  ), I would just give the nut a bit of a twist, reassemble, drive to see if noise was gone, then do it again until it is.

Question is, is what he did going to mess his bearings up sooner than later?


As for that oil pump thing, that's just bizarre. What about the filter?? He might be one of those guys who figures filters can just be replaced every who knows how many oil changes. I like to change mine each time I change the oil but I've heard you can do it every 2 oil changes but I wouldn't.