6 months 10,000km OCI with ASL?

[m2pc]

Little off topic, but I thought I saw that they had changed up the OEM filters to a single model #. Don't know how good the new ones are or if there is any difference.

 

[TooSlick]

Amsoils' drain intervals are predicated on the idea that you can run the intervals speced for petroleum lubes for normal and severe service conditions, in a particular motor. Toyota recommends 5000 mile drain intervals with petroleum lubes under severe service conditions, which is about 100% too long for this V-6. Hence, you should shorten the Amsoil drain interval accordingly ....I feel comfortable running the Amsoil 5w-30/10w-30 for up to 15,000 miles in an engine with an average rate of oil degradation. Therefore I would use 7500 mile oil/filter change intervals with the Amsoil 5w-30/10w-30 in this motor. The OEM toyota oil filters are of good quality, if you like to use those .....

I have five local customers running Amsoil in the 3.0L, Toyo motor and am testing various Amsoil formulations to determine which will hold up the best. I expect the Series 3000, 5w-30 will turn out to be their most durable formulation in this specific application for several reasons ....

Tooslick
Dixie Synthetics
(256) 882-0768

 

[hkkc]

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Originally posted by msparks:
You didn't mention if you were going to do an engine flush or not. With that many KM's I would most definately do an engine flush.

Also if this is your first run with Amsoil or any synthetic for that matter I would reduce my oil change interval slightly. So your choice of 6 months or 10,000 KMs is spot on.

After the first change at the 6 month mark you should have no problem extending out to the 1 year mark and 24000 kms or so.

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msparks, I did order the ASL and two SDF-20 filters from you. Thanks for the great customer service.

This is the first time using synthetic in this engine. No, I didn't use the engine flush (Amsoil). I hear too many negatives about using engine flushes on BITOG. I went with the 6 months/10,000kms OCI because the oil filter (Amsoil) recommends changing at that interval. The 10,000kms because the car only does 20,000-25,000 kms each year so basic calculation results in 10,000kms for the 6 months. I wanted to do a UOA on the oil that came out but didn't get around to it. I'll probably stay with the 6 months OCI for now and do an OA in the future. Thanks again for making the purchase a good experience.

[ December 31, 2003, 01:26 AM: Message edited by: hkkc ]