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Just got my Blackstone report and they are recomennding extending out to 7500 miles and staying with M1. So much for me ever going back to 5-20. Here's a link to my Mileage report with a link to the Blackstone PDF Mileage & Oil report Ray

This oil continues to do great in my truck. 6815 miles on the oil. Oil was changed in October after returning from Albuquerque. The truck was used on short trips to and from work through the coldest part of the winter. The whole report Here's what Blackstone had to say: "Your used oil read...

Hi All, I just got done changing the oil on the beast and updated the spreadsheet on the Website . This oil (M1 5-30) went 6815 miles and for roughly the last 3000 I've been using fuel power. From the data I see slightly Ray

Hi all, I bought this excursion in May. We did 3 long distance trips Danville Va (May), Billings MT (Aug) and Albuquerque NM (Oct). I've run both M1 5-20 and M1 5-30. I've captured every detail of every fillup. Oil chgs, Auto-Rx treament & Maint doses, Gas treatments. Here's the link to the...

Hi all, Just got the report from blackstone. Mileage was just short of 7000 miles, mostly highway out to Montana and back to New Hampshire. Blackstone says it looks terrific, I tend to agree. Questions: What would cause the viscosity to go from a 5-30 to a 10-30? Is that much moly from...

Hi all, Well I finished up the Auto-rx sequence on Thursday. I changed the M1 0-20 with the autorx thursday night. Cut the filter open today. The Pictures are up on http://www.whatsupballooning.com/b4autorx.htm Both sets of pictures are there for side by side comparison. Did see some...

Hi all, Here's some pics of after cutting the mobil 1 filter open and the oil before I applied the auto-rx http://www.whatsupballooning.com/b4autorx.htm I added 1 bottle for the 6 quarts in the sump and put a motorcraft filter on. I will be changing the oil out at 27,800. Which will be the...

I bought a 2002 6.8liter Excursion limited with 21,000 miles. I love this truck. Probably the best setup for my balloon business I could have found. It was a rental before I got it. I changed out the oil with M1 5-30 with a Fram Filter (my bad) as soon as I got it. Ran that oil for a little bit...

Hi All, I'm new so be gentle with me. A month ago I went and bought a 2002 Excursion with a V10 that was used as a rental. It had almost 21,000 miles on it when I got it. A friend turned me on to FTE which thru links I wound up here. I can't get enough of this stuff!! I learn more everytime I...