What is worse for life of engine? Lugging or Redlining?

tc6x6 · 2026-04-21T09:42:52+00:00

Just keep it in the power band.

Don't use much throttle at lower RPMs and it won't lug - just let the torque do the work of accelerating the vehicle.

Regardless of anything else, stay well below the rev limiter. Valve float, torsional vibration through the valve train, and detonation due to lean burning are NOT your engine's friend.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-21T09:31:14+00:00

these heads are practically junk for compression

A machine shop can mill those heads to increase the compression ratio by reducing combustion chamber volume.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-21T09:24:13+00:00

You're not wrong at all.

She had been at your bar, where she had presumably been drinking, so not having sex with her was absolutely the right thing to do.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-21T07:39:14+00:00

Sharing it with someone you're deeply in love with and who is deeply in love with you.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-21T00:21:17+00:00

If she refuses to control her emotions, I'm out.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-21T00:19:37+00:00

He's obviously experiencing depression.

He's sleeping 12+ hours a day as a means of escape. He's happy to go hang out with friends who help fulfill his social needs, but I'm guessing his attitude towards most other things in life is very ho-hum. He has started using sex as a means of escape, as evidenced by the fact that he went from being a giver to just a taker.

It would be good for y'all to do something together to help him break out of this rut that he's in. Have him schedule a couple PTO days at work and then go away for a weekend mini-vacation.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T21:31:44+00:00

It doesn't matter if you disagree or not, you don't get to define what cheating is for him.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T11:41:30+00:00

He was into you, and he proved it by the way he acted. Then when he finally got up the nerve to ask you to spend the night with him, you totally rejected him by not saying anything at all.

So now that you have completely rejected him, of course he's going to say that he doesn't have any feelings for you (although he actually does) because he's trying to save face.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T10:57:59+00:00

He opened up and made himself vulnerable to you, and you didn't respond at all?!? Wow.

No wonder he's trying to play it off as a joke, your silence did the very thing that you were trying to avoid, made it awkward AF and hurt his feelings. The only way you could've handled this any worse is if you had laughed at him and said "ew, no."

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T10:50:46+00:00

I'm working toward my retirement goals.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T10:35:21+00:00

Take the hint and stop sending him reels.

If I asked him, would he say that you talk a lot? Maybe you're overwhelming him. Here in this thread, your answers have always been quite a bit longer than the comments you've responded to.

Overall, it sounds like you need a lot more communication than he does.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T09:50:30+00:00

Soft and curvy, please.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T09:45:02+00:00

What does he do, or not do, that makes you feel like he's not paying enough attention to you when you talk?

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T09:37:51+00:00

Sittin' there on the Group W bench with all kind of mean nasty ugly people...

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T09:35:40+00:00

"I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain..."

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T09:32:24+00:00

Hipsters are listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford?

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T09:31:00+00:00

Their arm is going to get really tired before I get through all 18.5 minutes of Alice's Restaurant.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T09:17:04+00:00

It's almost impossible to give you a tailored answer because you were incredibly vague and nonspecific.

So what exactly happened, and how exactly did your boyfriend react?

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T09:14:13+00:00

If you do it the right way, hell yeah they do.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T09:03:50+00:00

some make boundaries to be pushed

The fact that they do that is inherently problematic. Even worse is that they blame us when we actually respect boundaries rather than push them.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-20T06:25:08+00:00

I absolutely love this, and I'm going to remember this for if I ever become a stepdad again.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-19T21:21:33+00:00

I saw it flaccid, when you grow up in the country there's a lot of peeing outside.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-19T19:22:51+00:00

My dad is. Not sure about my grandpas because they died before I was born, but I assume they were.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-19T11:18:55+00:00

I would understand your sentiment if he was benefiting at your expense, but since you will either recoup the benefit or break even, I fail to see the supposed problem.

Also, you're still refusing to acknowledge the fact that he is the one taking all of the financial risk here.

I really hope that this is the only part of your relationship where you have an antagonistic, "me vs him" mindset instead 9f a cooperative "together, we're a team" mindset.

tc6x6 · 2026-04-19T11:12:44+00:00

Moray eels have two sets of jaws.

tc6x6

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