(12-04-2014 04:10 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  You can do some research and some folks will do a custom tune. That will probably run $500-700 though.

That's my wife's car. I'm not putting that kind of money into it the way she drives it. I have to Seafoam the PCV and the throttle intake about once a month or two just to keep it going LOL.

Oh okay

Yea, then messing with the engine may not be a good idea anyways. Stressing some of those components doesn't sound good.

LOL!

Wait, I've got the 2865, I just went and looked.

http://www.amazon.com/Superchips-2865-Fl...uctDetails

(12-04-2014 04:14 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Oh okay

Yea, then messing with the engine may not be a good idea anyways. Stressing some of those components doesn't sound good.

LOL!

I could sell it for $299.99 but I know I'll have a buddy that will eventually need it.

(12-04-2014 04:13 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 04:10 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  You can do some research and some folks will do a custom tune. That will probably run $500-700 though.

That's my wife's car. I'm not putting that kind of money into it the way she drives it. I have to Seafoam the PCV and the throttle intake about once a month or two just to keep it going LOL.

All of those 1996-2005 3400 V6 GM engines had problems with the Dexcool anti freeze Jelling up and eating away internally at the Lower intake manifold gaskets. It eventually will break through and mix oil and antifreeze together causing engine bearing failure. They also had early Mass airflow sensor failures. Check the radiator often for any sign of muddy looking sludge under the radiator cap. You can Google Dexcool GM problems. Millions failed. Thats one reason salvage yards have lots of product with no accident damage in the GM sections. I had failures with Transport, Grand Am, Delta 88 and a 2003 Buick LeSabre. Brother in laws lost Grand Prix, GMC Jimmy, Monte Carlo SS and Neighbor lost a Cadillac Seville all within 3 years of each other. All had the Dexcool antifreeze.

Paul Krugman in December 2010, declared that “peak oil has arrived.”

“What the commodity markets are telling us,” Mr. Krugman averred, “is that we’re living in a finite world, in which the rapid growth of emerging economies is placing pressure on limited supplies of raw materials, pushing up their prices. And America is, for the most part, just a bystander in this story.” Far from being a bystander, America has been the main oil-market innovator.

(12-05-2014 08:08 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 04:13 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 04:10 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  You can do some research and some folks will do a custom tune. That will probably run $500-700 though.

That's my wife's car. I'm not putting that kind of money into it the way she drives it. I have to Seafoam the PCV and the throttle intake about once a month or two just to keep it going LOL.

All of those 1996-2005 3400 V6 GM engines had problems with the Dexcool anti freeze Jelling up and eating away internally at the Lower intake manifold gaskets. It eventually will break through and mix oil and antifreeze together causing engine bearing failure. They also had early Mass airflow sensor failures. Check the radiator often for any sign of muddy looking sludge under the radiator cap. You can Google Dexcool GM problems. Millions failed. Thats one reason salvage yards have lots of product with no accident damage in the GM sections. I had failures with Transport, Grand Am, Delta 88 and a 2003 Buick LeSabre. Brother in laws lost Grand Prix, GMC Jimmy, Monte Carlo SS and Neighbor lost a Cadillac Seville all within 3 years of each other. All had the Dexcool antifreeze.

I definitely Seafoam the intake often enough to take care of the any jelling issues in the manifold. And every time I fill the neighborhood with plumes of white smoke. Maybe that is why. Thanks for the heads up. And yes, the MAF is terrible. I have replaced the MAF sensor along with the IAC valve and TPS and the damn thing still hunts a bit at idle. The biggest issue I have is sometimes it is hard to start (intermittent)... just doesn't seem to want to fire. It always does eventually and the clocks reset like it is a battery issue, but the battery tests out fine. Seafoaming and cleaning the throttle body takes care of it for a month or two until the intermittent hard starts crop up again. This has been going on 3 years. Problems aren't getting any worse, I just can't seem to pinpoint the root of them.


Is it the antifreeze itself the issue or the mechanical design of the vehicle?

FWIW, my wife drives a 2004 Rendezvous. Other than a couple or batteries and other small DIY stuff and stuff to pass inspection, we haven't put a dime into it.

(12-05-2014 08:58 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(12-05-2014 08:08 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 04:13 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 04:10 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  You can do some research and some folks will do a custom tune. That will probably run $500-700 though.

That's my wife's car. I'm not putting that kind of money into it the way she drives it. I have to Seafoam the PCV and the throttle intake about once a month or two just to keep it going LOL.

All of those 1996-2005 3400 V6 GM engines had problems with the Dexcool anti freeze Jelling up and eating away internally at the Lower intake manifold gaskets. It eventually will break through and mix oil and antifreeze together causing engine bearing failure. They also had early Mass airflow sensor failures. Check the radiator often for any sign of muddy looking sludge under the radiator cap. You can Google Dexcool GM problems. Millions failed. Thats one reason salvage yards have lots of product with no accident damage in the GM sections. I had failures with Transport, Grand Am, Delta 88 and a 2003 Buick LeSabre. Brother in laws lost Grand Prix, GMC Jimmy, Monte Carlo SS and Neighbor lost a Cadillac Seville all within 3 years of each other. All had the Dexcool antifreeze.

I definitely Seafoam the intake often enough to take care of the any jelling issues in the manifold. And every time I fill the neighborhood with plumes of white smoke. Maybe that is why. Thanks for the heads up. And yes, the MAF is terrible. I have replaced the MAF sensor along with the IAC valve and TPS and the damn thing still hunts a bit at idle. The biggest issue I have is sometimes it is hard to start (intermittent)... just doesn't seem to want to fire. It always does eventually and the clocks reset like it is a battery issue, but the battery tests out fine. Seafoaming and cleaning the throttle body takes care of it for a month or two until the intermittent hard starts crop up again. This has been going on 3 years. Problems aren't getting any worse, I just can't seem to pinpoint the root of them.


Is it the antifreeze itself the issue or the mechanical design of the vehicle?

FWIW, my wife drives a 2004 Rendezvous. Other than a couple or batteries and other small DIY stuff and stuff to pass inspection, we haven't put a dime into it.

Primarily the Dexcool. It was supposed to last 5 years or 100,000 miles before changing. Chemicals in it weaken the cheaply made intake gaskets. New upgraded designed replacement ones also failed. Do a Google search on GM Dexcool antifreeze Problems. Literally hundreds of articles there. ECU might have capacitor getting weak causing reset issues on ignition. Had to also replace one on the Delta 88 . Sometimes the transmission would quit then later go forward but not reverse and new time just the opposite would occur. Sometimes a no start then later fire right up. Finally sold it to a salvage yard. No good thing to be stranded. Luckily it was a 3rd car for back up purposes.

(12-05-2014 09:33 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  

(12-05-2014 08:58 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(12-05-2014 08:08 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 04:13 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 04:10 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  You can do some research and some folks will do a custom tune. That will probably run $500-700 though.

That's my wife's car. I'm not putting that kind of money into it the way she drives it. I have to Seafoam the PCV and the throttle intake about once a month or two just to keep it going LOL.

All of those 1996-2005 3400 V6 GM engines had problems with the Dexcool anti freeze Jelling up and eating away internally at the Lower intake manifold gaskets. It eventually will break through and mix oil and antifreeze together causing engine bearing failure. They also had early Mass airflow sensor failures. Check the radiator often for any sign of muddy looking sludge under the radiator cap. You can Google Dexcool GM problems. Millions failed. Thats one reason salvage yards have lots of product with no accident damage in the GM sections. I had failures with Transport, Grand Am, Delta 88 and a 2003 Buick LeSabre. Brother in laws lost Grand Prix, GMC Jimmy, Monte Carlo SS and Neighbor lost a Cadillac Seville all within 3 years of each other. All had the Dexcool antifreeze.

I definitely Seafoam the intake often enough to take care of the any jelling issues in the manifold. And every time I fill the neighborhood with plumes of white smoke. Maybe that is why. Thanks for the heads up. And yes, the MAF is terrible. I have replaced the MAF sensor along with the IAC valve and TPS and the damn thing still hunts a bit at idle. The biggest issue I have is sometimes it is hard to start (intermittent)... just doesn't seem to want to fire. It always does eventually and the clocks reset like it is a battery issue, but the battery tests out fine. Seafoaming and cleaning the throttle body takes care of it for a month or two until the intermittent hard starts crop up again. This has been going on 3 years. Problems aren't getting any worse, I just can't seem to pinpoint the root of them.


Is it the antifreeze itself the issue or the mechanical design of the vehicle?

FWIW, my wife drives a 2004 Rendezvous. Other than a couple or batteries and other small DIY stuff and stuff to pass inspection, we haven't put a dime into it.

Primarily the Dexcool. It was supposed to last 5 years or 100,000 miles before changing. Chemicals in it weaken the cheaply made intake gaskets. New upgraded designed replacement ones also failed. Do a Google search on GM Dexcool antifreeze Problems. Literally hundreds of articles there. ECU might have capacitor getting weak causing reset issues on ignition. Had to also replace one on the Delta 88 . Sometimes the transmission would quit then later go forward but not reverse and new time just the opposite would occur. Sometimes a no start then later fire right up. Finally sold it to a salvage yard. No good thing to be stranded. Luckily it was a 3rd car for back up purposes.

Thanks, I'll look into it. While it has never left her stranded, it is a real pain in the rear.

Hope it helps.

(12-05-2014 08:38 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  Paul Krugman in December 2010, declared that “peak oil has arrived.”

“What the commodity markets are telling us,” Mr. Krugman averred, “is that we’re living in a finite world, in which the rapid growth of emerging economies is placing pressure on limited supplies of raw materials, pushing up their prices. And America is, for the most part, just a bystander in this story.” Far from being a bystander, America has been the main oil-market innovator.

Shocking. That clod Krugman was wrong, yet again?!? Say it ain't so!

It's $1.99 in parts of Oklahoma...

I remember filling up for $0.88/gal in 2000 in suburban Atlanta; it was $1.05 in Alabama at the time. The lowest my dad ever paid in nominal terms was $0.199 in El Paso during the late 1960s.

.28 -.30 cents when I was a kid mowing lawns. We would have "gas wars" now and then where it would go for .15 cents.

This is going to be catastrophic if it keeps up. The energy sector has been keeping the national economy afloat since 08. If it dies, expect to see the chickens from 08 come home to roost.

The good news, much of US production thanks to fraking will drie up in the next year. Those fields, like Eagleford, lose 50-75% of their production in a year without new capital investment. That should drive prices back up.

(12-14-2014 02:47 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  This is going to be catastrophic if it keeps up. The energy sector has been keeping the national economy afloat since 08. If it dies, expect to see the chickens from 08 come home to roost.

The good news, much of US production thanks to fraking will drie up in the next year. Those fields, like Eagleford, lose 50-75% of their production in a year without new capital investment. That should drive prices back up.

There really will be pretty far reaching impacts if the prices stay low and production declines in the shale fields.

My dad's company doesn't by any means rely on oil and gas to stay afloat, but they do a fair amount of business with Canadian oil sands companies. They've seen their orders from those companies steadily decline the last few months.

(12-14-2014 02:47 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  This is going to be catastrophic if it keeps up. The energy sector has been keeping the national economy afloat since 08. If it dies, expect to see the chickens from 08 come home to roost.

The good news, much of US production thanks to fraking will drie up in the next year. Those fields, like Eagleford, lose 50-75% of their production in a year without new capital investment. That should drive prices back up.

It will hurt domestic production in the oil industry. It is a strong positive for just about every other industry. It is a net positive economically by a long shot.

(12-14-2014 01:54 PM)smudge12 Wrote:  Sorry for the bump, but unfortunately my friend in TX just posted that he and others were let go of their jobs at Schlumberger because of "restructuring" (likely due to the oil price decrease). He had a pretty technical and specialized position too.

Shlum-are-gay is right up there with Halliburton/Baker. If they can't manager their big players any better than that, then your friend needs to apply at Halliburton. We had these same issues in 2002 when I was working at BJ Services, and we were the third or fourth biggest, yet nobody in the company was laid off because of great personnel management. Work was slow and we struggled for 40 hours sometimes, but we all had jobs when the oilfield came back up.

(12-04-2014 03:12 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 02:51 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 11:36 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 11:32 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(12-03-2014 10:05 PM)Kronke Wrote:  $2 gas = billions in equity vanished and thousands of jobs gone.

You poors that actually cheer on the drop in oil as an excuse to "go shop" should instead think about becoming 1 less of the 75% of Americans with zero savings.

???

The Wall Street banks will be fine. Their bets on oil are hedged with other derivatives. They win either way. $2 gas will create a lot more jobs than it kills.

It's bad for investors but that's it. My dad has been in the oilfield since the 70's and he's not hurting one bit from lower prices. I guess some people think that when the price of oil drops, people get downgraded in pay or laid off but they don't.

LOL "your dad" = the entire industry, apparently. The smaller, shale producers are getting squeezed and can't survive if oil goes much lower and/or for a sustained period of time.

Baker Hughes and Halliburton are merging. You think they are doing that for fun? The combined entity will still be smaller (market cap) and less profitable than Schlumberger, but with 18k more employees. With the goal being synergy, what do you think is more likely? Adding jobs or cutting them? That's rhetorical, by the way.

http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/201.../19192823/

http://247wallst.com/energy-business/201...lumberger/

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/28/investin...-us-shale/

Yeah, my dad is the Senior Sales & Accounts Manager for Baker Hughes. Hallibortion will merge in next June. He started in the Cement Dept in '76, moved up to Sales in '84, and got promoted to his current position shortly after Baker and BJ merged. I wasn't dogging you when I said "some people," I know from experience that lower gas prices don't effect employees with the lower to upper middle class wages and what it hits on the upper class, it's not enough to hurt them unless their up to their neck in debt.

Rumor has it, Halliburton will sell off the pressure pumping groups to other businesses.

Checking back in a week later.

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-halli...re-2014-12

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/busine....html?_r=0

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-55-oil...00487.html

(12-15-2014 08:46 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(12-14-2014 02:47 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  This is going to be catastrophic if it keeps up. The energy sector has been keeping the national economy afloat since 08. If it dies, expect to see the chickens from 08 come home to roost.

The good news, much of US production thanks to fraking will drie up in the next year. Those fields, like Eagleford, lose 50-75% of their production in a year without new capital investment. That should drive prices back up.

It will hurt domestic production in the oil industry. It is a strong positive for just about every other industry. It is a net positive economically by a long shot.

It would be if our entire system wasn't feeding on energy production right now, which it is and has been doing since 08.

This has the potential to bring down the whole economy.