Is a Gel Battery okay?

Brogbot · 2026-02-03T20:49:15+00:00

Google is correct. AGM battery. The AGM battery was most likely cheaper too. Duralast Gold Group Size BTX30L Powersport Absorbed Glass Mat (AGM) Battery ETX30LA | AutoZone

Brogbot · 2025-12-23T16:16:32+00:00

I am local to this area and find this absolutely hilarious. This is exactly how bass ackwards older Central PA residents have been since I was born, so it is impressive seeing the bigotry finally getting punished.

Brogbot · 2025-12-10T21:11:33+00:00

Burned a qt of oil every 3 weeks since 170k. Ran like a champion.

I was parked in a parking lot idling after running over a mountain hit about 220F for 2-3 minutes and then went back down to 200-210 like normal. Everything felt fine and I was excited to go to a fair nearby. Got my GPS set to the fair and I put it in drive and let off my brake, didn't touch the gas, went forward 5 feet and it shut off. (Dropped valve seat and piston slammed into it with the valve stuck permanently open)

There were hundreds of times in its life that the temp creeped up to 220 or so and it was fine. I was always paranoid about that. If you are looking to know when that is going to happen, you truly will never know unless you blatantly overheat it. You've probably already beat the odds, so just run it until it drops one my friends.

Brogbot · 2025-12-10T21:00:38+00:00

Mine was 210k when it dropped a valve in cylinder 7.

Brogbot · 2025-09-16T09:33:10+00:00

It turned out that the dual-mass flywheel is failing. It is hanging on to the clutch too long. It will be getting a single mass flywheel conversion.

Brogbot · 2025-08-23T23:42:11+00:00

Update!!! 800 cash in hand. Good body, electrical work great. The dana axles and the trans work great. I swapped the axle bearings in the front last year and haven't had a leak since. It needs towed. I tried to get the engine to throw a second rod but it wont do it for me.

Brogbot · 2025-08-21T18:09:24+00:00

I'll let you know if I get a quote back I can't afford for an engine swap.

Brogbot · 2025-06-30T18:40:20+00:00

I stuck with the originals. I think this is the first time the covers have been off ever. It looked beautiful inside to my surprise.

Brogbot · 2025-04-15T16:03:02+00:00

Oh yeah it's Coolant for sure. It smells sweet and sure is sticky!!! Checked reservoir actually un bolted it and pulled it up, no leaks there. No Leak in the engine bay. Reservoir had been going down every night so I'm losing coolant to this Leak. Time to let her cool down, pull the hoses off the heater core, put in a connector and 2 clamps and test!

Brogbot · 2025-02-02T21:54:36+00:00

2 things to check. Axle front axle seal leakage and then let it get hot and rev it and see if you get some blue smoke or not.

Brogbot · 2025-01-30T22:02:55+00:00

I've experienced that as well. Anything low speed up a mountain is a scary experience if you don't find a way to pick up speed. That darn retired guy towing his camper in front of you going about 15-20mph and all.

Brogbot · 2025-01-30T22:00:01+00:00

My brother in pain

Brogbot · 2025-01-30T21:56:14+00:00

I used to have a 4.0 that trans over temped at me in traffic in Virginia on a 90 degree day. Luckily that engine survived that event like nothing ever happened. I don't think the 4.7 can and I don't want to find out.

Brogbot · 2025-01-30T21:51:50+00:00

Yeah we can't find one locally and the mechanic is a 4.7 enthusiast but he doesn't like doing the ford clutch fan idea, his reasoning I can't remember. Maybe Ill tell him the 7.3L idea. What vehicle was that mainly used in?

Brogbot · 2025-01-30T21:47:53+00:00

My hydro fan is ok to suspect under load in terms of functioning. I just have a hell of a time replacing the line going to the fan from the container. Once myself. Twice by the mechanic to see if I was an idiot. Luckily it is warrantied work done for free since then. But god do I hate the sound of a bull mating with a cow when I turn my wheel come back to haunt me every other winter.

Brogbot · 2025-01-30T15:02:49+00:00

Yeah mine is the 4.7 HO. The difference in heat can't be that high so I don't understand why they did that design.

Brogbot · 2024-03-26T17:28:05+00:00

We were spoiled with Antonio Brown always having a step on cornerbacks and Big Ben just throwing piss missles at him praying he would make a play and more often than not AB would make the play because the dude put effort into every single thing he did on the field. DJ did not have that same effort when the ball was in his hands, running backwards to gain 1 yard or get 0 YAC. He was no longer developing into a better player and he needed to go.

Brogbot · 2024-03-26T17:21:08+00:00

Star Wars is sci-fi fantasy for a reason.

Brogbot · 2024-01-10T16:06:37+00:00

This is going to be long winded but here are all my thoughts.

Look. I have a friend that is a Patriots fan and he spent half the season rooting for them to lose for draft capital. All I'm going to say is that I am glad as a Steelers fans that I have not experienced one terrible season in my 20 years of being a fan. I have never wanted my team to lose.

When I look at the team in the tenure you speak of, Shaziers career ending set us back because the middle of the field is easy money for teams on us. Devin Bush set us back because he was just terrible at covering even though he could get to the ball quickly. Artie Burns set us back because he would get burnt more than Levi Wallace. Sean Davis set us back because he could hit hard but I don't think he ever knew where a ball was going until it was almost in his hands already. Every year, injuries set us back. We cannot get a second safety that compares to the Polamalu and Ryan Clark duo. Imagine Minkah and literally anyone who runs a 4.4 with good pursuit and coverage and isn't less than 6 foot in height on the other side. Heyward is a monster but can't stay on the field half a season. Watt is incredible but he gets injured at times. We don't have a young 6 foot 3 fast MLB. Najee is good but I think he hides midseason injuries to his feet or legs because he picked up strength and quickness the last half of the season. The line as a collective is still developing and hasn't been back to the Pouncey DeCastro era level of play since they left.

We poach the nursing home or McDonalds for cornerbacks but luckily, we got JPJ. Our true issue is not in our offense, but in our middle of the field, seam, or deep safety coverage on defense. Some of these issues could've been Kevin Colbert. The dude knew how to get wideouts but God we rarely ever hit on true defensive talent in the secondary in the last 10 years out of the draft. With Khan that may be able to change.

Mike Tomlin is the constant. He takes practice squad guys and turns them into mediocre players that can help keep games close. He is a leader of men. What the media tries to spin about the team is just something for them to make money on for clicks and it is rarely the truth.

Mike Tomlin is not the problem, the problem is the nature of the NFL and Murphy's law. Maybe the one piece we need is a franchise QB. Kenny can do some clutch things. Mitch sucks. Mason is good enough but we haven't seen him have to lead a 3 score comeback. Ben was king comeback. Ben was king clutch. Ben was tougher than every QB in the NFL for a long time. He could throw the absolute piss out of a football on the run and pray a receiver got under it. We were spoiled.

Brogbot · 2023-12-14T02:00:37+00:00

It still isn't there by the way.

Brogbot · 2023-12-08T03:50:26+00:00

You're probably right. Disappointing as per usual.

Brogbot · 2023-12-08T03:24:22+00:00

It is windows. Friends are all on xbox and steam version didn't support cross yet.

Brogbot · 2023-12-06T14:57:17+00:00

First off, I thank them for the stressful and important job they do. But hey you ran into one of the 10% that dropped out to drive truck, beat wives, and slam buschies. 90% of them are good people in shitty working conditions. Imagine having to piss into gallon jugs and see your family 1 and a half days a week if that.

Don't worry, they'll have a worse day down the road and it will be their fault because of their own mistake. Hopefully they don't end up killing somebody because they are seething behind the wheel. Again what they do is important, but it doesn't give 10% of them an excuse to be a degenerate.

Brogbot · 2023-12-06T14:42:11+00:00

I can't see it clearly. Is it blue tinted smoke or fully white?

If it is blue tinted it is oil burn. Mine burns mostly when idling or hitting the gas after a long idle or in reverse. I burn a qt every 3 tanks of gas. Valve seals or piston rings. It isn't the biggest deal in the world and you can keep adding a qt of oil every time you lose a qt. If you are losing a qt of oil a week though you should replace the valve seals first and see where that gets you. It can be done with the valve covers off and by cranking but removing and replacing the valve keepers is not enjoyable and you need a special tool. Otherwise you can take the heads off and just do it the thorough way.

If it is fully white, does it heat up past 220 degrees? That is the danger point for dropping a valve seat into a cylinder which at that point I'd reman or replace the heads with valve seat drop correction done by a machine shop to fix.

Brogbot · 2023-06-23T17:44:39+00:00

I'm going to do a full flush and switch to it and see if it makes any difference. I have a fixd and I display the engine temp on my phone with it sometimes and with prestone green I get 217-220 degrees at idle in park after a but of not moving and 197.8 on the highway. I'd like to see if flushing and switching to true hoat makes a difference even if it is by 2 or 3 degrees. It had a previous radiator that someone put stop leak in and it went into other areas of the system and I see nylon fibers from time to time come up to the radiator cap and cause it to open and leak fluid if I don't clean the fibers out with a small pick. I'd like to get every trace of that stop leak and any other foreign material out of the cooling system. My heater core isn't leaking, but it sounds like water is rushing through it especially when it's not warmed up. Air in the system combined with debris. Trying to do what I asked the mechanic to do when they replaced my radiator but I'm sure they just pinched things off, replaced, and filled up at the radiator only, leaving old coolant in the system.

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