Originally Posted By: Marco620
Could be moisture and short trips. My ex had a Ford Escort that went half a mile each day to work. After we drove it long distance and used Redline SI 1 occassionally and used synblend and changed PVC is was way less milky looking.
That is it! I had the same...
I found myself suffering from severe depression and didn't know why. One day I did an oil change after 45K on convenience store dino and started feeling good about myself . I realized it was the oil change that did it, so I started changing my oil every other day .
Now the depression is back...
What surprises me is that the boyz at M1, knowing there is an ever increasing knowledge base that is aware of the high iron situation, just doesn't design the situation out of the formula.
I know that most people are blind to the facts but those that are in the know certainly are the squeaky...
-30W - 0 is the only oil for me. Great fuel mileage and no wear at start up.
After the first start, no wear at all because the engine will never start again.
So good ole' Fred always gives me the business about changing my own oil. He takes his heap to Wally World and has them do it all the time.
I pull up to his house one day and he is on his hands and knees scrubbing the driveway and I says, "yo, what-cha doin'" and he sheepishly looks at me and...
This site is peppered with horror stories of quick change joints doing simple oil changes that have gone bad. Doing it yourself is the way to go if you respect your vehicle.
I believe that Toyota isolated the cause of the sludge problem to under sized oil return ports in some critical parts in the engine that caused the oil to overheat in those "local" areas, thus sludge.
They corrected the problem in the newer engines but the reputational damage was done (as can...
I got an idea. Since this topic has not referd to any scientific studies that prove one or the other way is best, if you do it hot at one oil change then cold at the other, you could only be half wrong. Right??
Originally Posted By: AEHaas
All oils will eventually thicken with time and use.
I may have misunderstood but I was under the impression that as multi-viscosity oils age with use and time they thin out. EG: A 5W-30 may go to a 0W-20 or a 5w-20 ????
Originally Posted By: Truck&Cycle
Dodge Viper. Near impossible to get to the filter even though it was visible and when it finally did get removed from the mount, I had to thread it down the side of the engine to the transmission before there was enough room to drop it free. Same but reversed...