What Oil do you use?
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What Oil do you use?
Hey everybody, just want to get an idea of what types and brands you guys are using for motor oil in your trucks. I recently bought my truck, so I haven't change my oil yet, but with my last truck I was running Royal Purple, and I am probably going to stick with it. I just want see what everyone is using before I decide to change mine.
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Yeah I did a search for some info on this before I posted. I didn't really see much, but I didn't spend a long time looking either.
I haven't heard good things about Pennzoil, and I would never run my truck even close to 7500 miles on the same oil, no matter what the life expectancy is on the oil or how clean it is. I will not usually go much over 3000 miles, but that's just me.
When I was running RP I made sure I was keeping the viscosity the same as what's recommended. I guess this thread is more for what brand.
Thanks, I will do some more searching.
I haven't heard good things about Pennzoil, and I would never run my truck even close to 7500 miles on the same oil, no matter what the life expectancy is on the oil or how clean it is. I will not usually go much over 3000 miles, but that's just me.
When I was running RP I made sure I was keeping the viscosity the same as what's recommended. I guess this thread is more for what brand.
Thanks, I will do some more searching.
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Its probably a myth but several years ago I was fixing up an 86 Camaro I had.. bought it with a toast motor and pulled it tore it apart and it was filled with this gnarly nasty sludge.. My buddy who was helping me with it said thats probably from the previous owner using Pennzoil.. Just that was enough to convince me never to buy it again. who know if the sledge was from the guy just not changing the oil or whatever..
Haven't bought Pennzoil in nearly 20 years.. Could be ok. But the sight of that engine and my buddy saying that..
Haven't bought Pennzoil in nearly 20 years.. Could be ok. But the sight of that engine and my buddy saying that..
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Its probably a myth but several years ago I was fixing up an 86 Camaro I had.. bought it with a toast motor and pulled it tore it apart and it was filled with this gnarly nasty sludge.. My buddy who was helping me with it said thats probably from the previous owner using Pennzoil.. Just that was enough to convince me never to buy it again. who know if the sledge was from the guy just not changing the oil or whatever..
Haven't bought Pennzoil in nearly 20 years.. Could be ok. But the sight of that engine and my buddy saying that..
Haven't bought Pennzoil in nearly 20 years.. Could be ok. But the sight of that engine and my buddy saying that..
This is exactly what I have heard about Pennzoil, and why I won't use it.
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When i bought my truck they changed the oil in it while we were doing the paper work. After they got done i walked out and the mechanic looked at me and said always run valvoline or motorcraft in these trucks. He pointed to three trucks and said they were all run with Pennzoil and they needed new motors (sludged up). So for the last 50k my truck has had nothing but MC or Valvoline 5w20 and MC Filter.
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never used their full syn but have used GTX in a car i didnt care about. i would go with castrol for conventional, and mobil1 for full syn.