justin_o_guy2
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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What year model? How many miles? You Just Brought it home,, from where? Individual or dealership? Glad you found this place quickly. It was running yesterday, it's not broken, bet on the battery,, You will be needing a meter. Harbor Freight stuff will do fine.. The cost of Mobil One is just more than reasonable IMO,so, I ran Rotella T. $13.00 a gallon, not quart.. I've seen a Savage with just shy of 100,000 miles on it. That's been at least 10 years ago.. I'm sure,by looking at it, it Never saw any pampering, and yet, it was still in service..
The Point? The engine doesn't Need a high DOLLAR oil
It needs for the lifters and cam to have enough ZDDP , and todays fancy oils are great, for cars and hydraulic lifters and all kindsa good stuff, but These are some dinosaur design engines.. run Regular Gas and lube its guts right and NEVER let it idle below 1,000RPM and if you decide to pull the spark plug, blow the crud out of the cavity it sits in FIRST.. Don't ask how I know the importance of that..
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