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Oddball Oil Weights... best place to get them?

I’ll never understand running the cheapest shit you can find… without an engine, your ass ain’t getting to work in most cases. OP owns a Volvo so it sort of makes sense

Well I dont know shit about oil and as far as im concerned its all the same. I change my oil in most my cars once a year weather its 5 or 15k miles and every car ive kept has made it well over 300k never having an oil related failure. I stay stocked up on whatever wallmart has on sale for the cheapest price per ounce.
 
Well I dont know shit about oil and as far as im concerned it’s all the same. I change my oil in most my cars once a year weather its 5 or 15k miles and every car ive kept has made it well over 300k never having an oil related failure. I stay stocked up on whatever wallmart has on sale for the cheapest price per ounce.
anything you own newer than 2015?
 
The Sprinters won't start in winter when 5w- or 15w- are in the pan, they need that 0W-40 when its below zero. 5w gets so thick, the starter can't spin fast enough to generate 2400+ psi in the rail to light off. I actually tried 3 identical units with different oils one winter. 15w40 wouldn't turn over at all below 5 unless plugged in, 5w40 was slow to turn over down to -5, but then wouldn't fire off, and the 0w40 could start all the way down to -20.
heh, on the VW cars with the vane turbos, they'll pump up lifters and lose compression if you run 10w or thicker when it's below zero and take off from a stop somewhat hard when it's still cold

the vane turbos make like 60 psi in the exhaust manifold before the turbo spools, so the 120 psi of oil pressure will pump the lifters up the moment the valves float
doesn't seem to do it with thinner oil that doesn't give you retarded high oil pressure
 
slander from chi town, kinda like how you from commiefornia
Just because I was born there, doesn't mean I hail from there. I have lived all over the world... The longest in the desert southwest, and the second longest in northern Europe. I'm only a few years away from the upper Midwest becoming my longest-standing home.

And shitcago doesn't get nearly as cold as Minnesota. Remember last winter when they approached our temperatures? Remember all the news stories about their electric vehicles being unable to charge? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
 
Just because I was born there, doesn't mean I hail from there. I have lived all over the world... The longest in the desert southwest, and the second longest in northern Europe. I'm only a few years away from the upper Midwest becoming my longest-standing home.
you're permanently tainted by california :flipoff2:
 
Just because I was born there, doesn't mean I hail from there. I have lived all over the world... The longest in the desert southwest, and the second longest in northern Europe. I'm only a few years away from the upper Midwest becoming my longest-standing home.

And shitcago doesn't get nearly as cold as Minnesota. Remember last winter when they approached our temperatures? Remember all the news stories about their electric vehicles being unable to charge? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
This thread summarized: I want to pay 2019 prices for oil in 2024 and don't know how.:flipoff2:

Maybe get in touch with someone in an industry that uses large quantities of oil and call their supplier and work out a deal:flipoff2:
 
As for the 5.0... I'm split on the whole cam phaser issue that will eventually come. That has me weary of departing from the mfg. spec.
I don’t know that I would trust ford spec that has been using 5w20 for over 20 years and have had cam phaser issues for over 20 years. Seems other manufactures have figured out cam phasers but not Ford. Wouldn’t 5w30 and 5w20 be the same in your oh so frigid winters for cold starts?

But hey do whatever you want.
 
I don’t know that I would trust ford spec that has been using 5w20 for over 20 years and have had cam phaser issues for over 20 years. Seems other manufactures have figured out cam phasers but not Ford. Wouldn’t 5w30 and 5w20 be the same in your oh so frigid winters for cold starts?

But hey do whatever you want.
Close... but no cigar:smokin:
 
I don’t know that I would trust ford spec that has been using 5w20 for over 20 years and have had cam phaser issues for over 20 years. Seems other manufactures have figured out cam phasers but not Ford. Wouldn’t 5w30 and 5w20 be the same in your oh so frigid winters for cold starts?

But hey do whatever you want.

No. No matter what the 5w30 will be thicker than 5w-20.

It's science and stuff... But really there are viscosity charts, and they have different allowances for every grade.

And usually Fords have oiling issues due to oil starvation from the oil getting sludged up and passages in the phasers getting plugged.
When I was researching them there was a mechanic that runs a shop outside Detroit doing nothing but mod motors. He showed one that had 300k with regular changes of Mobil 1 since new, and another with 100k of jiffy lube changes.
It was quite surprising how much sludge had accumulated and gunked up with the jiffy lube special. Like scraping sludge out with a pry bar to find parts.
The Mobil 1 motor looked damn near new, and was actually just worn out.

I never had an issue in my truck with cam phasers. It just ate exhaust manifolds like candy. :laughing:
 
anything you own newer than 2015?
Yes. Hybrid rav4. That one I look at the oil and feel it when the light comes on... usuallu takes 3 cycles for me to decide the oil no longer looks new and possibly feels worse between my fingers. 130k on that one.

A 17 f550 with 185k. Oil gets changed between 10 and 15k.

And a 2023 bronco... with 13k. First oil change was at 6k because its new and I was feeling fancy
 
Yes. Hybrid rav4. That one I look at the oil and feel it when the light comes on... usuallu takes 3 cycles for me to decide the oil no longer looks new and possibly feels worse between my fingers. 130k on that one.

A 17 f550 with 185k. Oil gets changed between 10 and 15k.

And a 2023 bronco... with 13k. First oil change was at 6k because its new and I was feeling fancy
The fingers test is bullshit with no scientific backing 😆

If you are curious send a sample to Blackstone Labs or your local Caterpillar dealer for testing.

Hopefully you aren’t running a $1.50-$2 oil filter which is a common occurrence up here for us snowbacks. The eco filters are not designed for those extended intervals
 
The fingers test is bullshit with no scientific backing 😆

If you are curious send a sample to Blackstone Labs or your local Caterpillar dealer for testing.

Hopefully you aren’t running a $1.50-$2 oil filter which is a common occurrence up here for us snowbacks. The eco filters are not designed for those extended intervals

I know the finger test is bullshit but you can clearly tell a difference. Usually run $10ish oil filters.
 
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