Hi Folks,
I stumbled across a few posts and analysis for the said engine, but I'm looking for a more personal (for lack of better terms?) recommendation.
Truck ('06 Frontier) has 56,xxx miles on it. I travel 400mi/wk for work: ~70MPH highway. Weekends involve what a truck should be doing: home improvement hauling, to/from 'camp, etc.
It is to be driven in NE climates - full summers and winters.
For all my previous 'daily drivers I have just used Valv dino in the mfgr reccomended weight. In this case it's 5W30 for all-season. I've only done two changes - they were at 5k with this oil.
My only grip with the valvoline is I seem to have slight valvetrain noise at idle - possible indicative of this engine, I don't know. My last 16v-DOHC 4cyl (KA24DE) Nissan was noisy also.
I'm looking for suggestions on both an entry-grade full synthetic and something a notch above, which can be found locally (auto stores, walmart, etc). In the past I have used M1 0W40 in the KA24DE immediately after a rebuild break-in, and it while it ran OK, it later began to burn oil.
Thoughts? I'd prefer to keep OCI's at 7500 tops, so that's the only cost factor.
Thanks kindly! I plan to get an analysis done after I'm about 1/2 way through this OCI.
Jamie
I stumbled across a few posts and analysis for the said engine, but I'm looking for a more personal (for lack of better terms?) recommendation.
Truck ('06 Frontier) has 56,xxx miles on it. I travel 400mi/wk for work: ~70MPH highway. Weekends involve what a truck should be doing: home improvement hauling, to/from 'camp, etc.
For all my previous 'daily drivers I have just used Valv dino in the mfgr reccomended weight. In this case it's 5W30 for all-season. I've only done two changes - they were at 5k with this oil.
My only grip with the valvoline is I seem to have slight valvetrain noise at idle - possible indicative of this engine, I don't know. My last 16v-DOHC 4cyl (KA24DE) Nissan was noisy also.
I'm looking for suggestions on both an entry-grade full synthetic and something a notch above, which can be found locally (auto stores, walmart, etc). In the past I have used M1 0W40 in the KA24DE immediately after a rebuild break-in, and it while it ran OK, it later began to burn oil.
Thoughts? I'd prefer to keep OCI's at 7500 tops, so that's the only cost factor.
Thanks kindly! I plan to get an analysis done after I'm about 1/2 way through this OCI.
Jamie