Oil change

[joeblow867]

My friend in the garbage business complains of the past decade or so the complete disaster for big diesel trucking in terms of the mandated crap. operators had various hacks to get around, etc. I think he says finally there might be some more sensible designs coming available or perhaps in future. but he said the maintenance nightmare has been very costly.

Oh, being in that business in the ny metro area he has stories to tell with the fabled recycling/etc.". yes, it's just about what you might imagine. Waste industry as we know has always been... let's see.... controlled by colorful characters ?

The wild thing is we ship diesel vehicles all over the world with no factory emissions equipment. Because pollution obviously wouldn't dare cross a border. Someday China might get onboard with emissions but India, they will be forever destroying the planet. The US is a drop in the bucket compared to them.

 

[Pinger]

I don't know, I'm not the oil whisperer. I just remember reading something that indicated they didn't totally turn a blind eye to the function of ZDDP. Doesn't that stuff act like tiny ball bearings for flat tappet cams? Because I know Nissan has a proprietary blend of oil for their variable everything engines that uses an oil with such a quality. This is just me rambling here, but it could be a hint of whatever they're using?

Might you be thinking of Lubrication Engineers' Monolec anti-wear additive? It's name is a contraction of 'mono-molecular' and is described as acting as a 'layer of ball bearings'.

Monolec Proprietary Additive | Lubrication Engineers

Monolec® is LE’s proprietary liquid wear-reducing additive that creates a single molecular lubricating film on metal surfaces, vastly increasing oil film strength without affecting clearances.

lelubricants.com

 

[toolmakerson]

The wild thing is we ship diesel vehicles all over the world with no factory emissions equipment. Because pollution obviously wouldn't dare cross a border. Someday China might get onboard with emissions but India, they will be forever destroying the planet. The US is a drop in the bucket compared to them.

yep.
last i check stats, their beef herd is absolutely huge compared to the us in terms of head count. maybe individual beef are much less in terms of hangine weight ? dunno. but if you're counting cow farts, china has way more than the us. much food production in china is exported. everything today is import/export instead of manufactured and used in the local nation.
last i checked stats, china's ocean fishing fleet was like 3,000 ships, dwarfing that of any other country. mostly they fish around the world, and try to then sell directly to the country. the north atlantic is mostly chinese fishing ground, while us fisherman are told the ocean is running out of shrimp (hah) / fish. west coast of south america is same thing, chinese ships.

but fear not, the chinese economy has been imploding since it was based on exports to the us, the largest consumer market of any country. our consumers spend baby.

a guy i knew since i was a kid says his son married a chinese woman, they lived in china cuz things were booming.

last year they moved back here because chinese economy was so bad. of course the wife had to wait many moons to get her authorization to come live in the us. she finally made it.

 

[Supercharged111]

Might you be thinking of Lubrication Engineers' Monolec anti-wear additive? It's name is a contraction of 'mono-molecular' and is described as acting as a 'layer of ball bearings'.

Monolec Proprietary Additive | Lubrication Engineers

Monolec® is LE’s proprietary liquid wear-reducing additive that creates a single molecular lubricating film on metal surfaces, vastly increasing oil film strength without affecting clearances.

lelubricants.com

I went on a quick search and came up empty handed, I'm referring to whatever Nissan uses to keep their VVEL happy on the VQ37VHR.

 

[evilunclegrimace]

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[Pinger]

I went on a quick search and came up empty handed, I'm referring to whatever Nissan uses to keep their VVEL happy on the VQ37VHR.

Can't comment on what Nissan recommend but my experience of Monolec is that it allowed my smart to reach 75,000 miles before needing a rebuild (due to the usual crap oil control rings). That is the highest ever mileage for that that I am aware of. Most failed before 50,000 miles. They were run on Mobil 1.

FWIW, the oil I used/use is the one that 540 RAT said was the best diesel oil he'd ever tested. (It was a combined diesel gasoline oil until the recommendation for gasoline was removed)

 

[Road Trip]

The wild thing is we ship diesel vehicles all over the world with no factory emissions equipment. Because pollution obviously wouldn't dare cross a border.

Meanwhile at home, what do you think the added cost of all this totals up to on a new diesel pickup?

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(credit: https://www.drivingline.com/articles/how-diesel-emission-systems-work/ -- good article, quick update on all the new diesel emissions parts & acronyms)

Riffing on @joeblow867's comment, if the planet is a closed loop system, and this level of emissions control is of paramount importance
to the citizens of our country, then why not every truck made, for domestic or overseas use have the same emissions setup? Side-stepping
the emissions angle for a moment, why do we saddle our businesses with the cost of all of the above, but businesses competing with us in
foreign countries get to operate the no-emissions vehicles in order to support their business?

Seems like a hidden tax on us, a freer ride for them...and then the extra pollution is free to drift right on over across the ocean?

Seriously, take a quick look at the article, and just imagine what it would cost to fix this in a few years? The mind boggles.

 

[joeblow867]

the emissions angle for a moment, why do we saddle our businesses with the cost of all of the above, but businesses competing with us in
foreign countries get to operate the no-emissions vehicles in order to support their business?

Seems like a hidden tax on us, a freer ride for them...and then the extra pollution is free to drift right on over across the ocean?

Exactly. Americas bogus emissions standards make us far less competitive in the global market. Were never going to be able to get China and India on board with emissions. China and India account for about half the worlds pollution. The US GDP is almost double that of China yet our emissions are a small fraction.

 

[Schurkey]

I'm not opposed to emissions-control. I'm opposed to EXCESSIVE emissions control.

Roll-back Diesel emissions regulations to...2006? The last year before DEF was required.

They can roll-back gasoline-fueled emissions regulations to 1990 so far as I'm concerned. But '96 would be more politically-palatable, OBD2 and all.

 

[Sean Buick 76]

It was never about the environment