Oil??????????????????

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Oil??????????????????

Reply #30 – December 01, 2008, 11:50:34 AM

got it

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Reply #31 – December 02, 2008, 12:00:44 AM

I look at it like this,,
Who here will allow thier car to go 5000 miles and not change the oil?
I sure as hell wont. , but im also the guy who seems to do a transmission filter about every year to.

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Reply #32 – December 02, 2008, 12:10:16 AM

I've been driving and changing my own oil for 37 years and have never gone more than about 3000 on a change. But I'm gonna give this a try

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Reply #33 – December 02, 2008, 12:48:04 AM

Quote from: daminc;243138

Mobil 1 in everything I own here too.
Mainly, there's not a lot of choice. 25 years ago I used kendall and bought it by the case. (in cans)

i love using kendall in my race /strip cars but people around here stop stocking it here 20+years ago. so this is how i been doing oil
my high-way rigs they get mobil-1 and fram filters
every 6,000 miles or 1st a year what ever comes first.

my intown rigs they get valvoline and fram filters
every 3,000 miles or 1st a year what ever comes first.

my junkers or rigs i just save from a field or barn rigs
get napa oil(made by valvoline for napa) and from fram filter for the first time to see if there keepers or parting out. if there keepers ,then they move up one notch on oil change list on next oil change.

i have been following this rule from the time mobil-1 came out. before that, than everything got valvoline and fram filters. i have yet to have any of my engine's (new/used/rebuilt) fail from lack of oil or oil related. that almost 30 years!!!!!

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Reply #34 – December 03, 2008, 06:16:04 AM

Quote from: jcassity;245745

I look at it like this,,
Who here will allow thier car to go 5000 miles and not change the oil?
I sure as hell wont. , but im also the guy who seems to do a transmission filter about every year to.

I do, So far the longest I have gone is 12,000miles. Right now I am testing the Amsoil SSO which is rated for 35,000Miles or 25,000 severe service, I will be testing the oil about every 5,000 to check on it.

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Reply #35 – February 03, 2009, 12:12:26 PM

sry this thread might be dead but someone said they use kendall oil, there sold out and the orginal owners started another company and the oil is called Brad Penn oil. We use it in the shop in newly built engines etc. its a partial synthetic 30w break in oil, then use 10w30
its a PA oil so it might be hard to find

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Reply #36 – February 03, 2009, 01:46:01 PM

It's only "dead" until the next post lol

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Reply #37 – February 03, 2009, 02:18:49 PM

Reading the Kendall website shows they actually have enough confidence to post detailed info concerning their products.

A full listing:
http://www.conocophillipslubricants.com/brands-products/kendall_brand/engine_oils.aspx

Their GT-1 Synthetic:

http://www.conocophillipslubricants.com/dospoogeents/kendall/automotive_engine_oils/Ken%20GT1%20Full%20Synthetic%20MO%20TDS%20Web.pdf

Interesting. I'd like to compare their synthetic 5w20 to the Mobil1 variant...

*Edit*
Some Mobil 1 5w20 info:

http://www.mobil.com/USA-English/Lubes/PDS/GLXXENPVLMOMobil_1_5W-20.asp

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Reply #38 – February 03, 2009, 03:17:39 PM

we had a problem with oil in older engines(camshaft installs) and the tech line referred us to the brad penn for the high zinc content

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Reply #39 – February 07, 2009, 01:26:10 AM

i use castrol synthic /high mileage and fram tough guard filters on all my cars but then again i only put an adverage of 50,000 miles per year on my work car (construction) my wife put anywhere from 30 to 35,000 a year just cause she likes to drive the roads .i change oil bout every 3 weeks on my work car . 6 weeks on my wifes so go ahead and rip me for my choice of oil and filters but they havent let me down yet

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Reply #40 – February 09, 2009, 10:14:15 AM

theres some cheapie brand oil they sell at walmart(accel or something like that) that still contains a decent amount of zddp.

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Reply #41 – February 09, 2009, 12:02:26 PM

Bahh!!!

Oil...... Its over-rated anyways, who needs its

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Reply #42 – February 09, 2009, 01:00:16 PM

lol

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Reply #43 – January 29, 2015, 03:18:30 PM

I had a 1995 Honda Civic, 4 cyl. that I used AMSOIL in. Changed oil every 25k miles, oil filter every 12.5k. The car had 307k miles on it when I sold it and still going strong. Of course, I had to change oil in the car every 2 or 3 months since I racked up the miles pretty quickly. Another car I had that I used AMSOIL in was a 1999 Olds Aurora. It had almost 300k miles on it when my wife sold it. Two other vehicles that I used it on were 1995 Ford f-150 with straight 6, and 1996 Ford F-150 with 5.0 engines. Changed oil every 25k miles and filters at 12.5k. Both pickups are still in service today (not by me, but I sold both of them to a friend of mine who uses them in his business). One has over 400k miles on it and the other one about 387k miles last I checked.
If your engine doesn't have an oil leak, then it is a very good oil and economical, too. If you have a leak, it could get expensive.

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Reply #44 – January 29, 2015, 03:30:15 PM

Me. Using AMSOIL. Change oil at least once a year if I don't do 25K miles on the engine. But I do change the oil filter at 12.5K miles if I go that far by the time a year has gone by.