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Nov 30, 2022
Save your PVC and maybe engine
This follows the OEM redesign for valve cover gasket and protects the PCV orifice from excess oil, possibly thrown up by crank reluctor wheel. In these early 3.6L V6 GM engines (mine is 2008), a working PCV system is critical to help prevent sludge. The Felpro design has three ports in a cover to allow crankcase blowby gases to escape while helping prevent oil loss. These engines suffer from "stretched" timing chains. They also have very fine channels in the VVT (Variable Valve Timing) system driven by oil pressure. Sludge is extremely harmful to both, along with any compromised or dirty oil. Maintaining a shorter-than-recommended oil-change interval with synthetic oil and anti-drain-back filter, along with this improved gasket, gives one a reasonable chance at longer engine life, all things equal. Both my gaskets seem high quality with perfect fit and presumably excellent seal against oil and vacuum leaks over time. Good luck.
Apr 10, 2022
All a beginner needs - Demanding, but lots of info and help from great teacher Mr Will Barrow
It's a very dense course. It takes a long time to study the sheer amount of information Mr Will Barrow packs into every DVD and onto every page of the slender but powerful workbook. Without question, the greatest joy (to me) is reaching a point that allows the student to jam with the band on the play-along CDs. These are professionals who become your collaborators. Overall the course is completely accessible; and Mr Barrow unpatronizing and friendly; but the successful student will spend hours going back and forth through "Sessions" as the exercises and songs come under one's fingers. It is I believe Mr Wynton Marsalis who observes, "Technique is the Golden Separator." The greatest difficulty is learning where to put one's fingers on the very intimidating infinity of possibilities that makes a piano keyboard such a famous source of fear and mystery. There is nothing trivial about learning to play one. There is most literally infinity at fingertip. Too many, improperly guided, give up in frustration before their potential blooms.
This course is remarkably priced for its value – and especially compared to traditional in-person lessons. Here you learn at your pace, and you are your only judge. One may – and will – make endless mistakes and go back over and over, with never a word of criticism but lots of encouragement. A single precept here - "Slow it down and break it down." - is worth the cost.
The focus of this course is most certainly on chords, as in my judgment it should be. Too many others are focused on learning to read music and on notation. Professionals, except classical pianists, are in a different "ear space" centered on playing and hearing chords and harmonies. Here learning to hear, play and then recognize piano chord shapes; and the dynamics of fingering as the chords are realized; are the emphasis skills.
There is as well a good dose of music theory, a too-often overlooked or cursorily-treated but yet critical underpinning. Theory is not artistry, as the often-brilliant "front porch pickers" prove. But theory and its understanding are what make what one learns possible, and surely help shorten a path and flatten a steep learning curve.
I have a good 88-weighted-key board with the indispensable headphone jack. I rigged a good computer with its jack so I can put a soft pair of in-ear phones under an over-ear set. This allows me to learn without disturbing others – you watch Barrow's DVDs as you follow him.
If you spend ten minutes a day for six months, worlds will open you cannot conceive or imagine. Don't give up, and after you've satisfied yourself and your longings, teach a child. Good luck.