I bought mine used-the engine blew at 90K so had a rebuilt Jasper put in. I got anther 60K out of it before I sold it.
Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Yep, my parents bought it and passed it to me. My dad isn't a great one > for maintenance so it'd have gotten the oil changed "sometimes" before I > got it. I was religious about 3,000 mile oil changes even though the book > said (I think) 5,000. I did 10w40 in the summer and 5w30 in the winter > although I always used the cheapest oil I could get. It leaked less with > the thicker oil in the summer... > -Curt > > > On Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 5:17:57 PM EST, Randy Bennell via > Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Did you get it new? If not, who knows what sort of life it had before > you got it. Some folks never change oil. > > RB > > On 10/01/2018 4:06 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > > I was referring to some off-list knowledge. Dwight and I both had '88 > GMC S15s. Mine had the little 2.8L, his had the 4.3L. I was apparently > lucky that mine went 150,000 miles, I guess most of them didn't make it > that far. > > > > -Curt > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
