2019 Ranger Engine made sludge

[AzScorpion]

I just built a house in Tucson with a mini split, heat pump water heater, spray foam on the underside of the roof, R23 BIBS insulation in the walls. It's all electric and our June bill was $83 , July was $81. We payed close attention to air sealing with ZIP flashing on all the windows and penetrations. We have a lot of glazing. The power was out for more than a day a couple of weeks ago and the interior temp only went up 3 degrees.

Wow, great job and nice house!

It's nice to see all those things worked out making your house super efficient. It's really impressive the temps only went up 3 degrees when the power went out. I'm also doing the Zip System on the walls and contemplating doing it on the roof, I most likely will though seeing as I'm going this far. I'd love to do mini splits throughout the house but that's way over my budget. I'm trying to make it really efficient but also trying to not go to overboard which is easy to do when you go down this rabbit hole building an air tight house.

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[JHRODD]

Wow, great job and nice house!

It's nice to see all those things worked out making your house super efficient. It's really impressive the temps only went up 3 degrees when the power went out. I'm also doing the Zip System on the walls and contemplating doing it on the roof, I most likely will though seeing as I'm going this far. I'd love to do mini splits throughout the house but that's way over my budget. I'm trying to make it really efficient but also trying to not go to overboard which is easy to do when you go down this rabbit hole building an air tight house.

I didn't use ZIP sheathing on the AZ house, just ZIP tape and ZIP liquid Flash. With the low humidity and infrequent rainfall it didn't seem necessary . I did use ZIP sheathing on my WA house that I built a couple of years ago.

 

[yamahaSHO]

Yes that's true, whenever I consider buying another car, I have quick look online to see what the average price for wrecker salvage engines is, if they're plentiful and cheap, that's a good sign, because obviously they don't fail often, or sell many, on the other hand they're asking silly money for even crappy looking ones, that's a red flag.

I pull my stuff in an AC and heated shop. That was a big push for me when we bough the current house. Though, we plan to move again and build something like below.

I just built a house in Tucson with a mini split, heat pump water heater, spray foam on the underside of the roof, R23 BIBS insulation in the walls. It's all electric and our June bill was $83 , July was $81. We payed close attention to air sealing with ZIP flashing on all the windows and penetrations. We have a lot of glazing. The power was out for more than a day a couple of weeks ago and the interior temp only went up 3 degrees.

We're looking to build in the next 2-3 years and efficiency will be super high on my list. My parents built a house in Phoenix (Litchfield Park) back in the 90's and used "Ice Block" for the outer walls. It wasn't something regularly used at the time, but my parents wanted the efficiency thing. It's 1 foot thick outer walls comprised of foam blocks with rebar and concrete poured in the middle of it. It was air tight enough that they had to have an air handler to bring in fresh air every now and again. They were supposed to retire there, but ended up selling that house after 20 years and moving to their Ohio property and going down to one domicile (dad was a fighter pilot at Luke). Now, they're looking to move out where I am in Arkansas and I'm looking to build next to them.

 

[Chris M]

I pull my stuff in an AC and heated shop. That was a big push for me when we bough the current house. Though, we plan to move again and build something like below.




We're looking to build in the next 2-3 years and efficiency will be super high on my list. My parents built a house in Phoenix (Litchfield Park) back in the 90's and used "Ice Block" for the outer walls. It wasn't something regularly used at the time, but my parents wanted the efficiency thing. It's 1 foot thick outer walls comprised of foam blocks with rebar and concrete poured in the middle of it. It was air tight enough that they had to have an air handler to bring in fresh air every now and again. They were supposed to retire there, but ended up selling that house after 20 years and moving to their Ohio property and going down to one domicile (dad was a fighter pilot at Luke). Now, they're looking to move out where I am in Arkansas and I'm looking to build next to them.

I work as a security supervisor at Litchfield Greens, about 1 mile south of Luke AFB. We have lots of retired fighter pilots in our community. Did your folks perchance build in there? It would be cool to know the history of how one of those homes was built.

I am appreciative of your dad's service.

 

[yamahaSHO]

I work as a security supervisor at Litchfield Greens, about 1 mile south of Luke AFB. We have lots of retired fighter pilots in our community. Did your folks perchance build in there? It would be cool to know the history of how one of those homes was built.

I am appreciative of your dad's service.

We built in Litchfield Vista Views, near Dysart and Camelback (128th and Missouri Ave). It was a desert back when we built.

I also went to Millennium High School, back when it was Agua Fria North and was only a freshman campus. There were also no houses around there either.

Both mom and dad were in the AF (55 years combined), I did 20, and my wife did 9 (she was my Flight Commander when I met her).

 

[Chris M]

We built in Litchfield Vista Views, near Dysart and Camelback (128th and Missouri Ave). It was a desert back when we built.

I also went to Millennium High School, back when it was Agua Fria North and was only a freshman campus. There were also no houses around there either.

Both mom and dad were in the AF (55 years combined), I did 20, and my wife did 9 (she was my Flight Commander when I met her).

Ah...then thanks to all of you for your service!

This community is literally on the corner of Camelback and Litchfield Rd. Seems to be mostly middle aged to retired folks here.

 

[yamahaSHO]

Ah...then thanks to all of you for your service!

This community is literally on the corner of Camelback and Litchfield Rd. Seems to be mostly middle aged to retired folks here.

Thank you.

I am familiar with the community as I go back every now and again and my parents didn't move away until 2017. I also have a lot of family out there as my mom grew up in Mesa. I miss it out there, but it's grown far too much for me. I like not dealing with traffic all the time. This is one of the reasons we left Denver a couple years ago.


On the topic of sludge and Arizona, my dad surprised himself years ago when he took the heads off his RamJet 350 crate motor that we installed in his 83 Monte Carlo (wrong head gaskets installed at the factory and couldn't figure out why it always wanted to overheat). He found there was some rust on the valves. He didn't think he'd see that in AZ due to the hot and very dry nature and being stored in a climate control shop. What he was doing mostly with the car is taking it out, doing some burnouts, maybe a trip around the block or so by Luke and back. He was flying F-16's back then, so the thrills were had in the air. With the Monte, he wasn't getting things hot enough, long enough to burn off moisture. Lesson learned, but sometimes sludge just comes from short drives.

I don't even know how old this video is... Probably 2010-2012.

 

[Chris M]

Thank you.

I am familiar with the community as I go back every now and again and my parents didn't move away until 2017. I also have a lot of family out there as my mom grew up in Mesa. I miss it out there, but it's grown far too much for me. I like not dealing with traffic all the time. This is one of the reasons we left Denver a couple years ago.


On the topic of sludge and Arizona, my dad surprised himself years ago when he took the heads off his RamJet 350 crate motor that we installed in his 83 Monte Carlo (wrong head gaskets installed at the factory and couldn't figure out why it always wanted to overheat). He found there was some rust on the valves. He didn't think he'd see that in AZ due to the hot and very dry nature and being stored in a climate control shop. What he was doing mostly with the car is taking it out, doing some burnouts, maybe a trip around the block or so by Luke and back. He was flying F-16's back then, so the thrills were had in the air. With the Monte, he wasn't getting things hot enough, long enough to burn off moisture. Lesson learned, but sometimes sludge just comes from short drives.

I don't even know how old this video is... Probably 2010-2012.

Lol...going green Next to a Prius!

Yeah, the whole Metro area continues to grow at such a rapid rate, it's hard to keep up and the traffic is awful most of the time. When we moved back here we settled in Surprise a bit west of the loop 303. Traffic isn't exactly murder for us yet, but it's getting there.

 

[TomSim]

i do mine every 6,000 miles but i use synthetic

 

[OrangeStreak]

That was a good video. I really enjoy Eric's videos. I learned a lot from it. I do my oil changes at 3000 miles. I know Ford says 6000. But I'm just an old fart about that. I was also glad to learn that the oil pump was not wet belt driven.

Richard,
I too was taught to do it every 3000 and it was tough to change to the 5000 benchmark but somehow got through the transition...

 

[theprinceofsnj]

Richard,
I too was taught to do it every 3000 and it was tough to change to the 5000 benchmark but somehow got through the transition...

I don't go over 4,000. More Offen it's done just before or after 3000.

 

[TJC]

I don't even know how old this video is... Probably 2010-2012.

The engine exhaust note in that video brought back a LOT of memories. Just close your eyes and listen.

I loved the Chevy small block V8s. Everything from the 265ci to the 400ci. But my favorites were the 283 & 327. Just great engines to build up.

 

[theprinceofsnj]

The engine exhaust note in that video brought back a LOT of memories. Just close your eyes and listen.

I loved the Chevy small block V8s. Everything from the 265ci to the 400ci. But my favorites were the 283 & 327. Just great engines to build up.

Drove mostly 4 cylinders GM 1.6L (3), 2.5L (1) Ford 1.9L (2) 2.3L (2) 1.6L (1) Others. 6 cylinders Ford 3.3L 200 (2) 3.0L V-6 (2) 3.8L (3) Olds 350 (1) Ford 292 (1) 332 (1) 5.0L (1)

 

[LawnMM]

I noticed this as well, and this was on an abused engine. Don't think I'm going to be wondering when I need to get my valves cleaned anymore. Might try an endoscope at 100k to see how much buildup is on them.

Don't discount the amount of 'save me' effort put into the engine. Somebody went into the oil pan, the timing cover, down through the head, several thousand dollars in labor were dumped into that engine alone. Then there's all the engine flush/cleaner whatever they used for the sludge.

That may have cleared some of it out or whoever did the wrenching may have put time into it prior to or after the chemical attack. Either way it likely looked worse prior to those efforts.

 

[seasprite]

Don't discount the amount of 'save me' effort put into the engine. Somebody went into the oil pan, the timing cover, down through the head, several thousand dollars in labor were dumped into that engine alone. Then there's all the engine flush/cleaner whatever they used for the sludge.

That may have cleared some of it out or whoever did the wrenching may have put time into it prior to or after the chemical attack. Either way it likely looked worse prior to those efforts.

I was hoping they would of showed the intake side of valve on this video, but no such luck. Still a cool video and speaks well of the 2.3L

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