Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

Wait a second. I never said they were bad people. That's your emotions talking.

I know quite a few really good people, that make bad financial decisions. My sister is a really good person, has a heart of gold, but if I was a bank or insurance company I wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole, she is a high risk.

Is it fair, probably not, I don't really know and I don't really care, life isn't fair and there are an unfathomable number of much greater atrocities in this world to be up in arms over than someone paying a few dollars more for insurance.

 

I don't think anyone is suggesting banging thru gears. 1,800 rpms will not hurt that engine at all. It will run just fine probably as high as 2,000 rpms all day every day. Load it up and drive it, work it good, if you baby it burning oil is what it will do from now on.

 

Ya, I probably phrased things badly before. Banging gears is not what I was meaning. Just don't progressive shift, take it all the way up to 1800 or a bit more before grabbing the next gear. And run it up the hooks at almost full throttle. unless you got a dyno to use, a good grade and a whole lot of weight is the best way to make that engine work. you need to get her thoroughly warmed up, then work her hot for a while. Obviously I don't mean over heated, just up there at top operating temperatures. If she was put together right, you can run that lil engine all the way to 2k all day long and not hurt her. If they screwed up the assembly, no amount of babying her is gonna keep her from self destructing.

Just accept that your gonna burn a whole LOT of fuel in that first couple hundred miles. And then once you got everything worn in go back to driving for economy.

 

Dy, I think it was Dave Ramsey or said the vast majority of people don't have an income problem. They have a spending problem. He was spot on.

[QUOTE="double yellow,
Obviously this is way easier for a single guy with little/no bills, but the cure for a paycheck to paycheck existence is to cut expenses. Some might say you could just increase income instead, but I think most who only do that wind up spending more money until they are in the same boat surrounded by nicer stuff.[/QUOTE]

 

Not the same but when I use to race motocross we use to rev the piss out of the engine after a rebuild.

 

Isn't revving the piss out of em why you had to rebuild them?

 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

WOW. After a few days I was able to read all 89 pages and this is a ton of valuable information. Thanks you very much Double Yellow and all other members that contributed!!!

 

DY you posted in another thread about start costs being 15k how much of that was up front and how much on a monthly payment. Thanks, hope your rebuilt motor is performing great.