Colt45ws
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Originally Posted By: car51
Colt45ws: sorry for the mis understanding sir
Its all good.
Originally Posted By: WellOiled
Originally Posted By: Colt45ws
You have to remember those Recommendations are with SL oil that was available at the time.
True, but Ford has not changed their OCI/OFI recommendations except moving from 5W30 to 5W20 oil.
I don't think the OCI length is a problem; plenty of people have run longer.
Regardless, my sample went out to OAI today via UPS.
Originally Posted By: WellOiled
Originally Posted By: Colt45ws
Someone earlier asked if I was going to move to 5W30 to try to slow consumption. I may. Right now I have enough Maxlife 5W20 for at least 2 10k OCIs with top up needs. I actually think some of it is leaving through the valve cover gaskets, as when I changed all the coil packs, There were a few holes with a teaspoon or two of oil inside. One day, I might change the gaskets, but its a all day job on these cars.
I was thinking since you are using so much oil why not try 5k oil and filter changes using a higher viscosity oil. But, if I had oil in the stash, I would use it up too.
I'd still have to top up the oil at least once because viscosity alone isnt going to improve consumption by 80-100%. Top up oil has very good rejuvenation properties to the sump load. More than you would expect for 1/5 of the capacity.
For reference, the first oil I put in this car was Mobil 5000 5W20 and went though a quart of that every 1000 miles, so by changing to Maxlife I got another 1750 miles out of a quart.
Colt45ws: sorry for the mis understanding sir
Its all good.
Originally Posted By: WellOiled
Originally Posted By: Colt45ws
You have to remember those Recommendations are with SL oil that was available at the time.
True, but Ford has not changed their OCI/OFI recommendations except moving from 5W30 to 5W20 oil.
I don't think the OCI length is a problem; plenty of people have run longer.
Regardless, my sample went out to OAI today via UPS.
Originally Posted By: WellOiled
Originally Posted By: Colt45ws
Someone earlier asked if I was going to move to 5W30 to try to slow consumption. I may. Right now I have enough Maxlife 5W20 for at least 2 10k OCIs with top up needs. I actually think some of it is leaving through the valve cover gaskets, as when I changed all the coil packs, There were a few holes with a teaspoon or two of oil inside. One day, I might change the gaskets, but its a all day job on these cars.
I was thinking since you are using so much oil why not try 5k oil and filter changes using a higher viscosity oil. But, if I had oil in the stash, I would use it up too.
I'd still have to top up the oil at least once because viscosity alone isnt going to improve consumption by 80-100%. Top up oil has very good rejuvenation properties to the sump load. More than you would expect for 1/5 of the capacity.
For reference, the first oil I put in this car was Mobil 5000 5W20 and went though a quart of that every 1000 miles, so by changing to Maxlife I got another 1750 miles out of a quart.