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From : greg surratt

Q: i had my oil changed 1 week ago with 5w-20 as i had read on dtw forums that this would get rid of my hemi tick! it did nothing for the tick but with winter in canada approaching the thin oil shouldnt hurt but will change to something thick in the spring! scott i have been lurking here since taking posession of my 04 durango ltd with the hemi. while at the dealership having a minor tweak done to my nav/radio the service manager tried to sell me an oil change two-way sneeze-thru windvents star-studded mud guards...........musta been a slow day. i told him that i had already had a change at 500 mi. with 5w-30 dino and would change again at 2k before going to full synthetic around 4k. this is an approach which i have used over multiple vehicles the theory being to get the chips out early while allowing the best ring seating during break in by sticking with dino. he told me 1. this is totally unnecessary due to modern manufacturing tolerances. 2. despite the owners manual calling for 5w-30 there was a tsb suggesting/requiring use of 5w-20 in all hemis. they use a semi-synthetic. any comments on the above 5w-20 seems awfully light to me. over the years ive used mobil-1 royal purple and amsoil in various vehicles. any comments on which is thought to be best nowadays tia mopartee .

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From : steve lusardi

on fri 05 nov 2004 172431 gmt tbone t-bonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote on fri 05 nov 2004 040132 gmt tbone t-bonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote on wed 03 nov 2004 062653 gmt mgg mike@pacbell.net wrote the bright side is that he cant be re-elected in 4 years....sad day for america and the rest of the world. - --mike or mike maybe the 51% of americans that voted for him know more than you two do! or maybe that 51% cast their vote out of fear and ignorance. actually it turned out to be 52% but you are probably right. they are all wrong and you alone got it right tom. you are such a hero tom. now you are whining like a child. when you look at the map and see what states and with what population in them voted for him i am more right than you want to think. from what you said in hear your vote for him was a fear vote and perhaps this is why you are whining about what i said now. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving now whos speaking out of ignorance bush won the popular vote and the electoral vote. so even with population density and the electoral votes and electoral college out of the question he still had more actual votes than kerry. who is saying anything different moron. moron isnt a very nice way to address him tom. i thought you never provoked an argument i am not disputing the fact that he won the election only questioning the reason why. lets try this again tom b. he got more votes. he got more electoral votes. he appealed to more americans than kerry did. instead of questioning the voters you need to look at your candidate. a better question would be why your candidate could not appeal to more voters. why your candidate could not get more votes would be a more efficient question than running your mouth whining about why people could ever vote for bush. we vote for who is able to convince us that he/she is the better candidate. kerry was not able to do that. why tom just because he had more votes means nothing more than the fact that there are more ignorant and scared people like you than those that are not. oh yeah i forgot. it was because we are all just stupid voters and only people that voted like you are smart voters. tom i try to be patient with you but your ego centric perspective of the world is so screwed that you just put yourself in the most embarrassing positions over and over. .