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Marvin: You know we can all make cheap cracks but when it comes to cracks about the effect of oil and that sandy dust you fellows get down there, in looking at frame rails, etc. around where the oil fumes, spray, etc. settles, which for some reason, with that sandy dust you fellows have, makes a heck of a good undercoating material, sets up like concrete and is probably a better preservative coating than most factory undercoating. Needless to say, would probably quickly be the death of anything that actually needs lubrication. While ever 3000 mile changes seem a little frequent with good synthetic, you may be absolutely correct in doing so. It may even be worse than driving in a coal mine. And, let's face it, k&n works well, perhaps better than most things in those kind of conditions and really does require much more often service than their recommendations; so, you are probably absolutely correct there also.
I just got through looking at crud created at, in and around rv generator run down there, not on beaches, etc. and it makes me think that general air borne dust would almost make filtration for any/everything a necessity; especially when combines with any oil contact. JMHO.
jofarr
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
I change the oil & filter every 3k miles. Problem is I put anywhere from 800 to 2000 miles a week on the car. Driving in sunny FL, even on the interstate system, isn't quite as bad as driving in a coal mine, but with all the construction going on, it is a lot like dirt track driving. The K&N literature recommends servicing the air filter (wash and apply new "filter oil") at least every 50k miles.... if I did that down here I'm afraid I'd collapse the air box <g>. I'll be servicing it at every other oil change, at least until they finish expanding all these roads down here (looks like I'll be doing it forever).
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