Recent content by snoops454

Cost of the oil really isn't an issue, the main reason I started running synthetic a couple years ago was to try to clean it up and it has, looking at the rocker arms and top of the engine from when I had the cam cover off all the varnish that covered everything before is now gone from the past...

MAKE/MODEL:Saturn 1.9L 4-Cyl FUEL TYPE:Gasoline (Unleaded) ADDITIONAL INFO: 2001 SC1 OIL TYPE & GRADE: Rotella 5-40 / Castrol Syntec 0W/30 MI/HR on Oil: 6400 / 6,500 Miles MI/HR on Unit: 167,900 / 161,500 Report Date: 5/7/2010 Make Up Oil Added: 1qt 10-30PP @3000 / 2qts ALUMINUM 3/4 CHROMIUM...

Originally Posted By: Johnny Didn't the 03 Buick with the 3.8 recommend 10W-30? I had an 03 Pontiac Gran Prix with the 3.8 as a company car and it recommended 10W-30. When I retired in 2005 that car had way over 100K on it and it did not consume a drop of oil. My parents had a LeSabre they...

Originally Posted By: fdcg27 No, it's more a matter of too many of our fellow North Americans being too cheap to pay a small price premium to buy goods made in North America. If all of us would put our money where we have our mouths, Walmart would revert to the buy American retailer it once was...

When you changed intake gaskets, what coolant did you refill with dexcool? It's a debated subject, but many claim it eats through gaskets. You say you changed these gaskets with 75k on the vehicle? with 208k you have more than double the mileage of the original failure. I would NOT recommend...

I guess I should get rid of my GREEN 2001 Saturn coupe that has provided me 170k reliable 40+mpg miles... Don't spend a ton of money trying to fix it up, just change the oil with what ever 10-30 is on sale and change it every 2k-3k with a little MMO if you like. Change the tranny fluid and...

I was running conventional Valvoline up to about 140kand it was using a lot more oil. I started using the GC 0-30 in the winter and M1 ep 5-30 and then 10-30 last summer, since switching to synthetics it has cleaned up the inside of the engine, and my oil consumption has actually gone down. It...

Oil Report DANIEL: Everything in this first analysis of oil from your Saturn 1.9L engine looks great. Universal averages show typical wear levels for this type of engine after about 5,000 miles on the oil. You ran this oil 6,500 miles and all wear read around averages. That's a good...