Chevron Delo 400 Synthetic - Drain Interval?

[fat biker]

Greetings All,

My first post!

I have used Red Line Synthetic in my cars for years and been quite happy. I run the Red Line one year/10,000 miles, 6 month filter change + makeup oil.

Now, still no job. Bought a gallon jug of Chevron Delo 400 Synthetic 5w40 at Costco ($12).

Here's the question - What's a safe drain interval?

1990 Toyota Corolla, 1.6L, 4AFE engine, oem Toyota oil filter, `142,000 miles

What drain interval would YOU use?

Thanks,
fat biker

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

You found Delo 400 Synthetic?!? Wow! That's an amazing feat all by itself!

If the engine is in tip-top shape and doesn't consume and you don't do lots of short trips, I'd go 6000 miles between changes. Then I'd send in a UOA to Blackstone or Butler to see how things are going so you can tune your intervals from there...and show the rest of the BITOG what Chevron Delo 400 Synth looks like!

 

[Gary Allan]

FB,

What's your annual mileage and driving style? Do you have any consumption isssues? I would go 6 months and do a UOA without draining it, if possible. Then you'll know whether to keep it in, or dump it and adjust your OCI accordingly. This will let you know if fuel or other issues are impacting your oil.

$12 for Delo synth is a good price. It's a good price for any 5w-40 HDEO. You just have to weigh the total economy of using it.

 

[LarryL]

What is Delo 400 synthetic. Is it a GIII oil, like Chevron Supreme?

 

[ssmokn]

Delo synthetic. I'd love to get my hands on that. The local Chevron distributor doesn't even carry it.

I'm not suggesting you do this without analysis but I would be willing to bet a beer that Delo will work fine for the same 10K run doing the filter change and top off just like your doing with the Redline.

Delo (synthetic or not) is good stuff.

 

[Gary Allan]

quote:

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What is Delo 400 synthetic. Is it a GIII oil, like Chevron Supreme?

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Pretty vague in description here

I would imagine it being GIII
Synthetic hydrocarbons Mixture 60 - 95 %weight 400 synth MSDS

product data sheets .pdf

SAE Grade 0W-30 5W-40
CPS Number 235195 235194
MSDS Number 7351 7351
API Gravity 33.1 31.5
Viscosity, Kinematic
cSt at -40°C
cSt at 40°C
cSt at 100°C
11,000
52.2
10.3
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96.6
15.6
Viscosity, Cold Crank,
°C/Poise
-30/27.8 -25/31.5
Viscosity Index 190 (0w-30) 172 (5w-40)
Flash Point,°C(°F) 215(419) 232(449)
Pour Point,°C(°F) -60(-76) -43(-45)
Sulfated Ash, wt % 1.1 1.5
Base Number, ASTM D 2896 10 12.5
Phosphorus, wt % 0.114 0.136
Zinc, wt % 0.130 0.151
@ $3/quart ..it's a screaming deal, IMHO

 

[JHZR2]

Id say you can comfortably go 6000-7500 miles. Or buy a gallon of LC, dope it up and go 10k miles; Id venture to guess that it would be fine!

JMH

 

[Dick in Falls Church]

Just follow the Chevron recommendations. They do make them, don't they?

 

[fat biker]

Thanks to all for the responses.

I would not say I found the oil, more like stumbled upon it in the aisle at Costco.

The engine is probably in “good” shape.
There is some consumption, which I am in the process of measuring.

Not many short trips.
Annual mileage ~ 10,000 miles

I was thinking 6,000 mile OCI, not sure about a mid-point filter change.
Not sure how commited I am to UOA.

“Just follow the Chevron recommendations. They do make them, don't they?”
Well, if they do, I have not found them, either on the container or the website.

Thanks,
fat biker

 

[bulwnkl]

Chevron's recommendation for their fleet oils was (still is?) to follow engine manufacturer's recommendations. They don't pretend they can tell you how long the oil will last when it might reasonably end up in just about any internal combustion engine in just about any climate and service condition on the planet. It would truly be silly for them to do otherwise given those circumstances.

 

[Crashbox]

FWIW, I've seen Delo 400 "synthetic" at the Costco Business Center before, I think it's fairly regularly stocked there.

 

[a4tdi]

I emailed Chevron's tech center and was told that all Chevron synthetics are Group III.

 

[LarryL]

So, Chevron makes good oil, but they don't subscribe to the flavor of the month club advertising as others do. I'm using Delo 400 with ARX and it went right to zero oil cunsumpion on an engine that was one quart per thousand miles.