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diyer2 Senior Enthusiast

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I will guess.

You make valid points custom. I will go with clean oil or frequent OCI's because it has worked for years. Now if I had a problem like Grumpy, I get testing. I would have traded it, so kudos to him.

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I say this in all the oil threads. Use dexos . Use whatever you like. This year I like Royal Purple.  Change it early. 3500 miles is my OCI on all my trucks.   BTW w

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Then do a search of oil threads and read all of them. Not much to discuss that hasn't been covered at least a hundred times or more

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I use many different brands, but keep them uniform for a specific vehicle.  For example, my wife's Honda Pilot and the Escalade get Mobil 1, my Silverado gets Castrol Edge with Titanium, the Trans Am and F250 get Pennzoil.  Basically I use whatever I think is the best at the time of its first oil change and I stick with that oil brand throughout the life of the vehicle.  Unless something comes along that says "hey stupid, change oil brands", RARELY will I change oil brands for one of my vehicles,.  The exception though, when synthetic oils first started getting big in the late 90's and early 2000's, I swapped everything over to Mobil 1.   I have never had a single engine oil related failure to any passenger vehicle engine that I have owned, and most see around 200K before I sell them.   All of that was to state merely what I am comfortable with, and I have no evidence (other than anecdotal) to support that my methodology works any better than anybody else's.

 

Pick a name brand full synthetic oil of the manufacturers suggested weight, get a quality filter, and change regularly.  Do that and any additional worries you have are borrowed.

 

 

 

 

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Grumpy Bear Senior Enthusiast

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4 hours ago, customboss said:

Grumpy Bears 2.4L rings stuck because he did everything right and the engine was  OVER fueling  diluting oil , nitrating, acidify, and carboning up the rings and valves.

 

Until I get that fuel problem under control my only workable defense is very short OCI's. 

Solution to pollution is dilution. 

😉 

 

At 1,735 miles this OCI and it looks really REALLY good

diyer2 would still be running it

 

Still I'll test on the next OCI.

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I have personally used Pennzoil Platinum for as long as I can remember. I think I did run 0W-30 Castrol (the green oil) once in an old Z28 I had lol. A good Wix filter to with it and called in a day. So far so good on my engines. The only engine to date I have had major issues with was my first Camaro. 1979 with a 350 and a 4bl carb. Bought her used and fixed her up over the years. One day a lobe on the cam wore and was tapping the bottom of a lifter. Other than that its been pretty good over the years.

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1 hour ago, Byrds8 said:

I have personally used Pennzoil Platinum for as long as I can remember. I think I did run 0W-30 Castrol (the green oil) once in an old Z28 I had lol. A good Wix filter to with it and called in a day. So far so good on my engines. The only engine to date I have had major issues with was my first Camaro. 1979 with a 350 and a 4bl carb. Bought her used and fixed her up over the years. One day a lobe on the cam wore and was tapping the bottom of a lifter. Other than that its been pretty good over the years.

pennzoil I one of the best motor oils out there for sure, I have use it for better than a decade now and my engines always run like a top.

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I use Amsoil Signature Series 0/20 and their extremely robust filter because I wanted the the best. And based on my own research that is what I chose. It’s expensive but I don’t care. 

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