microBlue Front wheel bearings

My fuel mileage average for January 2011 was 6.33 mpg and now is currently 9.17 mpg for January 2012. That is alot of fuel cost saved. (that includes Microblue rear ends and tranny too)

Using 9,000 miles for estimate purposes (both years I ran little over 9,000 miles during January) and the current national fuel price average for diesel per gallon of $3.85 would be 441 gallons less fuel bought at monthly cost savings of $1,697.85.

Multiply that by 12 months would be $20,374.20 savings annually. That will buy alot wheel bearings!

All my numbers are posted mygauges.com under "Dice.sTruck2012", "Dice.s Truck" and "Dice.sTruck2010" to verify these numbers and my total January mileage for 2011 was 9,343 miles and my estimated mileage to finish up January 2012 will be close to 9,001 miles. One more run and taking rest of month off to go to Disney World with grandchildren. Nice to save money for more vacation time.

 

My truck is not a team operation and I have work done during planned off time with everything scheduled ahead of time. For example: the remanned microblued tranny was sitting in shop ready to swap out when truck pulled in and picked up next day to take home and park for rest of my time off for weekend. I don't run that hard. My profit margin being more per mile due to fuel savings allows me to afford to take more time off.

I have dedicated runs that I do wild runs in between as I need to fill in with or I just take the time off. My choice.

 

So in other words what your saying is the rest of us that need to run every week couldn't afford to have this done. Believe me I'm not trying to rain on your parade I just know what a bad week in the shop does to the bottom line.

 

A week in the shop?

Did you miss the part about drove truck in shop and picked up the next day?

I have a dedicated run schedule every month and I have yet to miss one due to mechanical issues the last 2 years.

If it takes a week for a shop to change a tranny they have in laying the shop or a rear end laying in the shop it might be time to find another shop. Either one can be done in one full day at my shop if the tranny or rear end is laying their waiting on the truck to come in to shop as scheduled in advance.

I am sorry if I was not clear on that issue.

 

Unless I miss read this thread ( and that's possible) you had "you're tranny done" it wasn't setting on the shop floor ready to go in. In my area the shops don't work on the weekends and I work Monday thru Friday. All I was asking if the downtime was figured into your numbers. Downtime are the biggest issues with anyone driving a truck. A couple times in the shop a year can affect the bottom line. If your downtime was scheduled in I understand all I'm saying is a lot of these guys don't have funds for someone to take their truck apart and have it coated and put back together.

 

I installed Micro Blue wheel bearings on all 5 axles in November 2011 . have 22k since then. because of winter weather I don't have a hard number on the mpg increase but I am getting summertime mpg in January. guessing in the .5 to .8 mpg range.
Why do you guys think the coating wears off over time ? there is an oil film, no metal to metal contact......

I'm amazed how some people focus on how things can't be done rather than how to get it done.

 

If they are that tight on funds with that tight of cash flow, I don't know how they made it this long in business and may should do a serious reality check on their business plan that is if they have one.

Everybody knows it takes money to make money and an under capitalized business plan is doomed to fail.

The same guys that are that tight on funds usually believe the faster they go the more loads they move the more money they make that we have all seen fail alot. Most can't go by a chrome shop without buying some chrome or chicken lights that is if they still have room on the credit card.

I swapped out a remanned tranny that was upgraded to a higher torque rating I wanted so I can turn my torque up on my ECM someday to try improving mileage that way. That tranny was disassembled coated and put back together waiting at the shop when I pulled in to be installed on my scheduled date. My old tranny was taken by shop for core charge. All done dropping off one day and picking next.

I don't run that hard to plan this ahead of time plus my dedicated runs are regional roundtrips and I am by the house a couple of times during the week too.

I quess what you are calling downtime is getting confused with me also calling it a day off. Some weeks I might just work 2 days or I might just work right thru the weekend, but that is my option to have with my own authority and finding my own loads. Maybe that is where the confusion is?

 

Good to hear that Paul and those are some great results. Alot of people have lost more than 1 full mpg due to winter blend fuel and winter weather.

We have to overlook the so called experts on here who have zero experience with a service/product they obviously are making quesses without any back up information.

We have proof it works with our fuel mileage numbers compared to unqualified quesses by the so called expert mechanics here.

Somehow they think Microblue is an additive and that is all they can compare it to when in reality it is actual a permanent application of the product to the surface where it is used after the part is prepared for the application.

MicroBlue is not an Additive nor can it be compared to an additive because it is bonded directly to material it is applied to and not added to the lubricant to just float around not doing anyhting.

 

You are right and that's why polishing doesn't help much. It might feel easier to spin when starting from standstill because at that moment there is no oil wedge between parts.

Dice has spend more to his bearings than my truck is worth, do you think I should polish my bearings too? My frontwheel bearings can not even be polished because they are of sealed type.

 

Did you read the word quessing? Very reliable data again, like yours.