Recent content by Adambomb7777

Did the wife’s car today 2010 Mazda 5. The car is rotting away (in San Diego) but is mechanically sound. Out: Schaeffers 9000 5w30 Msl51516 After my experience in the Fiesta ST, I wanted to drain it. And it was also very very thin. In: RP HMX 5w30 RP 20-400 (still have a few of these from...

This was at least 20 years ago. I don’t remember all of the detail, but it was a 4.3 v6, and a new oil pump fixed the problem

The only time I’ve ever seen a filter pop like this was in an old Chev work van I once had. And what you said was exactly what was wrong with it Oil pump failure

It’s such a shame FE filters aren’t made very well. They could have been one of the GOAT’s in the oil filter world.

2015 Fiesta ST with a bigger turbo Out: Schaeffer 9000 5w30 Msl51516 Short run on this, maybe 1200 miles. I know it’s not objective at all but the engine ran VERY noisy on this oil. And when I drained it, it was very very thin. Thinner than any other oil I’ve drained from this cars sump (or so...

I thought Castrol was moving away from titanium?

2015 Fiesta ST with a bigger turbo. 216.5k miles in the odo Dumped the catch can. I haven’t checked it in 10k miles. Not bad. Not bad at all Out: Castrol Edge 5w30k MSL51516 In:

Join a Bronco forum or social media page. Or even a Phoenix Bronco owners page. See what they are saying. You may be over thinking this. It could be just fine with any off the shelf API ford approved 5w30

Thick 30

Motorcraft filters used to be cheap and decent. Now they are neither

Motorcraft purge valves are hot garbage. It’s a total coincidence. A couple years ago I went through 3 purge valves in 2 months on my Fiesta ST. That purge valve lasted until a month ago when I had to replace it again. I have nearly 214k miles on my Fist and I’ve gone through 8 purge valves in...

Pretty soon Americans will be paying Canadian smugglers for this…….

The “best” brew I’ve ever used was for 5k miles in my current car. I had zero issues with it and when I drained it there was no glitter in the pan, magnetic plug, and the filter was clean 3q no VII HPL 5w30 1 and a bit quarts Royal Purple HPS 5w30 Half a bottle of Lubgard LSPI And a fe3600...

On Focus and Fiesta ST’s lspi isn’t super prevalent but it does occur. Mostly people with stock cars running 87 octane and flooring it in 6th gear going 60 mph but I digress

I’ve used no vii and premium plus in my bigger turbo Fiesta ST and it worked well. I’ve posted UOA’s here on both