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Glad you hear you like what you don't hear anymore! I too just did an F/OCI with the Rotella T4 10w-30. I have noticed a VERY slight difference in the tone of the motor. Albeit and older 5.9 and not the same animal as yours. Only have about 20 miles on it so far, but all seems well. Planning on...

Yup. Hard to guess the sponsor! Much more and better info here on BITOG!!! Just caught my eye and figured I would share. Thought it would most likely bring more laughs than anything. Nothing more, nothing less. LOL.

Found this article on MSN today. Figured I would post for your reading pleasure. http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusias...a-hp/ar-BBxRmMK

dnewton3, Thank you for taking the time to respond and once again provide insight. After reading your post, I started thinking about all the UOA's I have read "overthinking" this. I cannot say that regardless of lube, I remember seeing what would be considered a "bad" UOA where the oil itself...

dnewton3, You are very wise and good call. I tend to overthink things I do not understand. I do allot of reading on sites such as these for both learning tools and to keep my brain busy at night. LOL. Since I do not understand how the chemistry of different oils work, my brain started thinking...

Thanks for the input everyone. I spent hours last night looking at UOA's and PQIA info. I have learned allot over the last few years reading this site, but just enough to be dangerous. So many confusing things to consider. For instance, on paper Delo LE 15w-40 looks like a fantanstic add pack...

I have been reading all the stellar 10W-30 oil reports and am considering changing. I am currently running Valvoline Premium Blue 15W-40. I live in Florida and the truck does not get driven allot. When it does it is pulling a 4K boat to the ramp 12 miles round trip and short tripping around...

I just got of a chat with Valvoline as I noticed these products at Wally World as well. They are supposed to email me some product specs for the oil. They advised that these are different products re-formulated for Wally World. They are NOT the same as VPB. They advised that since it was a new...

Thanks for all the input. Been doing OC's for years and have no idea why I thought of all this stuff. I am learning so much from those on this site that sometimes I tend to overthink things. Sometimes the little things do matter. Thanks again!

Morning all! Could not sleep last night and for some reason I was pondering a few things about my planned oil change today. So here it goes. 1) Is it better to change the oil after the engine as sat overnight so most of the oil can settle in the drain pan along with the "junk" you want out? Or...

It is not the smell of the oil in the bottle. Best guess is that it is coming from the breather tube. Stink all around the truck while it is running. Was bad enough that like Dustyroads said, I also did a complete inspection of the truck thinking I had an oil leak. Everything bone dry. Must be...

Running this in my 04.5 Cummins now. Like Dustroads said, it does smell quite a bit. Took me a little longer to get rid of the smell than he did. (smaller engine, less miles). He answered the same question for me a while back. Here is an UOA (kinda) that I posted a while back. Thought I may had...

Thanks for all the input! To add a little info. I use my wife's car as much as possible for local trips. I purchased the diesel as at the time I had a 35ft fifth wheel I used to pull with. The truck DOES pull my boat to the ramp prob 4-5 times per month. So she does get a "little" workout on...

Gotcha! Thanks for the info!!!

I have seen this mentioned in several discussions but can't find out anything about it.