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DIAMONDAI ENGINE & TRANSMISSION SURVIVAL GUIDE

 

Save 100,000 miles on each truck or car.

 

Earn $100,000 in savings during entire lifetime.
 

     That's if you know how to maintain every Engine & Gear Drivetrain you'll ever own. Drivetrain means engines, transmissions, and differential gears on RWD vehicles. Also 4WD trucks have a rear differential gear...plus a front differential gear...plus a transfer case attached to the transmission to transfer power to the front dif and unto the front wheels.  

     Products:  I personally use and refer these products because technologically speaking it's simply the most logical method of achieving my auto mechanical goals not paid sponsorship for anything.  :) 

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     BTW, you track your mile-intervals simply by taking quik pic of the odometer, and remembering to write the note to yourself what it was that was done for the car/truck, what miles, and when if it was for the coolant.  

 

Amsoil Bypass Filter: EABP110-EA:

Change this every 60,000 miles with transmission fluid flush:

     I personally attach this to my transmission fluid hose. It helps cool the transmission, but mainly it's filtering out the tiniest contaminants down to the 2 micron level. Those are what wear off the seals for the clutch valves in the transmission until the gears can't activate. This filter doesn't need a bypass valve for safety because even if it was to completely clog, it can never block the fluid's passage back to the transmission:

Click Here:  2 Micron, Screw On, Canister Filter @ Amsoil Website

 

External Filter Mount:

     This mounts onto the frame wherever it's most convenient, and the above filter twists onto the mount exactly like a regular oil filter twists on.

Click Here:  External Mount @ Ebay

 

Hayden Thermal Bypass Cooler: 699:

     I use this to separate my transmission fluid away from the engine's radiator. By doing this I cooled down both my engine and transmission. The cooler these run, the longer they're lasting without problems. This cooler should be mounted 1 inch in front of the radiator without making contact with the hot radiator metal.  

Click Here:  Hayden Transmission Cooler @ RockAuto

 

Lucas Fuel Injector Cleaner every other month:
     Protect Catalytic Converters from melting down due to carbon clogged injectors which cause the computer to over-adjust the fuel which doesn't burn completely, and that fuel causes the cats to overheat and melt down, so you can't pass SMOG.  Cats are very expensive.

Click Here:  Lucas Fuel Injector Cleaner 32oz @ Amazon

 

Lubegard Engine Flush & Bio Tech Additive:

     Degunk Crank/Piston Bearings & reduce friction heat wear due to freer flowing oil onto the bearings. Also protect Catalytic Converters from dreaded oil coating which can bypass gunked piston rings. And the Bio Tech has the LXE wax derivative to lubricate better than the oil plus additives to prevent the oil degradation...plus continued oil gunk cleaning detergents. The LXE is a lubcricant that sticks to the parts better than oil reducing heat 30% which I have seen personally. Reducing engine friction heat extends the miles the engine can get.  Engines are expensive.

Click Here:  Lubegard Engine Flush & Bio Tech @ Amazon

 

Lubegard Transmission Flush & Platinum Additive:

     Degunk Clutch Fluid Valves & reduce clutch friction heat wear: Reducing friction heat extends the value of the transmission fluid and the miles the transmission can get. It contains the LXE wax derivative and Synergol TMS which quickens the clutch compression times. The longer it takes for clutch discs to lock together, the more heat and wear...which wears out clutch discs which contaminates the oil...which wears out the valve seals...which means clutches can't activate the gears:
-Platinum not for 1980's or prior Ford transmissions or with any CVT's.  

Click Link:  Lubegard Transmission Flush & Platinum @ Amazon

 

 

***Knowing all of the following information is the equivalent of an extra income over a lifetime...especially if you are a business investor.

 

Engine Oil 5,000 Miles:

Flush engine before each oil flush:

     Oil breaks down after 5,000 miles. Oil causes carbon gunk around the crank bearings and piston rod bearings blocking oil lubrication...causing premature engine failure. It also gunks around the piston rings causing them to stick inside their grooves in the pistons which allows oil from the crank case to push passed piston rings...coating the catalytic converter. Cats are expensive, and you can't pass SMOG without them. Engines are expensive.  

 

Fuel Injector Cleaner in Gas Tank Every Other Month:

     Carbon gunk clogs up fuel injector pores which causes poor fuel combustion quality. The computer reacts to this info from the downstream O2 sensor/s, and it over-fuels the cylinders to balance the combustion ratio. This however causes the catalytic converters to overheat. Cats are expensive, and you can't pass SMOG without them. Save vehicle resale value too.  

 

Iridium Spark Plugs 100,000 miles:

     Iridium lasts the longest. Spark plugs also determine the fuel combustion ratio. Good spark plugs save cats...and fuel economy. Save vehicle resale value too.  

 

Transmission Fluid Flush 60,000 miles:

CVT Transmission Fluid Flush 30,000 miles:

     No matter what, flush this. If you bought a used vehicle, and you don't know if or when it was flushed, flush it. The fluid valves in these units control the hydraulic pressures that compress clutch discs together which hold the various gears in place. When those valves fail, gears can't be activated. The reason valves wear out is dirty transmission oil. Transmissions are very expensive.
     I personally use a big, 2 micron, external, oil filter and an independent oil cooler on mine. I custom installed these. Even if you have minor damage inside the transmission, the valves will still hold pressure because the filter collects contamination, so that gears will be activated like usual. It's an insurance that reduces risks to profits.  

 

RWD + 4WD Differential Oil change 100,000 miles:

Differential Oil Pinion Seals 100,000 miles:

Transfer Case Oil 60,000 miles:

     4WD has a differential gear in the front and rear which require differential oil. 4WD has a Transfer Case attached to the transmission to transfer power to the front differential gear..  If the Pinion Seal on a differential gear goes out on the road, all the oil in the differential gear case is lost on the road. The gears will overheat without oil. Difs and Transfer Cases are very expensive.  

 

Coolant Change 5 Years:

     Coolant is made so that it can't rust the metal. After 5 years it starts to rust metal though. It's enough to drain and change it every 5 years without flushing it. But if the coolant is very bad, a full flush is necessary. If the water pump rusts badly, the engine will overheat because the water pump can't move coolant around. Even if an overheat is not an immediate engine failure, an overheated engine loses the total possible miles it can last. Rust flakes can break off surfaces, and these can clog the thermostat and small pores inside the radiator. If coolant can't flow, engines overheat. Engines are expensive.

 

Timing Belt, Water Pump, Thermostat, Radiator Cap 100,000 miles:

     Not all engines are Timing Belt. If they are timing chain, that's enough for the life of the engine. However if the water pump isn't replaced, it risks overheating the engine, and that is usually what ends the engine since often the water pump is neglected since the timing chain doesn't need to be changed. 

     Low oil can overheat the timing chain, and stretch it. The stretched chain causes bad timing. I've seen timing chain and chain guide disintegrate from lack of oil, clog up Turbo Charger oil cooling lines, ruin the Turbo, and ruin the engine due to metal debris on the bearings. 

      Not all water pumps have a weep hole to warn you that it is failing. Drain and fill the coolant each 5 years allows you to go longer on the original water pump, but sooner or later it's a risk to the engine.  

     A timing belt eventually breaks. If the engine is an interference engine, the valves will be bent on the pistons, and the engine is ruined. If it is a non-interference engine, the belt can break, and it won't ruin the engine. You can research which type you have online.

     I've seen radiator caps go bad, not work, and cause the radiator to burst. The Rad Cap relieves pressure into the reservoir. The coolant exploded onto the belt, the belt slipped off the pulleys, spun the oil filter loose, and the oil drained out too. There's a valve in the Rad Cap that eventually wears away. 

 

***Too light of an engine will overwork the engine. Often they add a turbo charger to it to compensate for the power deficiency, but this isn't about anything except passing emissions standards. Turbo chargers overwork engines and that combined with an engine that is too light for its load makes a dire combination...because of increased vibration. The engine should be proportional to the weight of the vehicle and it's load so it will last a long time.  

 

***Direct Fuel Injection engines place their fuel injectors inside the cylinders, therefore the injectors no longer wash down the intake valves with fuel like in regular fuel injected engines. The intake valves become so covered with carbon that fuel combustion is diminished until the intake valves are no longer effective. These injectors and the intake valves are notorious for becoming covered in carbon which causes many problems, expenses, and failures.  

 

***CVT transmissions have good reputations in very small cars. It's a metal band wrapped around two metal cones which change their size. That causes the gear ratio change. The problem is it's metal on metal, therefore they don't last long unless the car is light...and the fluid is changed every 30,000 miles. The ones without a drain plug need to be drilled and a drain plug installed...no matter what.  

 

***Dual Clutch Automatic Transmissions all have bad reputations.

 

***I always suggest researching the truck or car you want, research the engine that's in it, and research the transmission. There are models of engines and transmissions that are used for various vehicle brands and models for different spans of years. If you find the engine or transmission model numbers, you can see how they are performing in all other vehicles and years they've been used in before buying them. The ones with bad reputations make the vehicles they are in worthless except to anyone who doesn't know their bad reputations yet.

 

***These days manufacturers sabotage their product vehicles, engines, and transmissions, so now the used ones are going up in price. People are buying cars and trucks from the 1990's up to about 2014, and they are simply rebuilding the engines and transmissions in them. The new vehicles have too many problems, too many things that can break, and even rebuilding their engines and transmissions is a risk because they'll fail again. This is on purpose for short term profits forcing customers to trade-in "on time," and forcing parts sales and repair contract sales. Also be aware of a notion to transition from independent owner vehicles to an Ai controlled, automated, transportation grid. Also older cars will last a century or more just by repairing, maintaining, and rebuilding. The new ones are made so poorly that they won't be repairable or rebuildable.  It's a choice of technology thing. This is widely known now especially to the people who repair vehicles who widely share vehicle experiences online.

 

     All these pointers are important on the road of life. The road is the #1 staple in life. The cost on the road is high if you don't know how to maintain, choose your purchase, and increase resale value. People who know nothing about these things are driving a trillion dollar annual industry around the world to their own loss. It pays to know and to set reminders for yourself when to change these things.

 

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Edwin Weichselbaum
DiamondaiDecisions.com​​