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Nothing wrong with ST, but basing its performance on the percentage of additives when compared to other oils is a non sequitur.
If you research ST in this forum, you'll find copious amounts of information.
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Which one is better? Canola? Olive? Sunflower???Just put an extra quart in it. It'll have more oil.
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Are Sequiturs an Arabian secret sauce of Aramco Oils in VRP? Got stolen by Warren Highline?
Wait - I confused again.
Well, if I felt qualified, I would. I'll bet you are one of the ones who could send him in the right direction.
He also does not know the level of additives in the oil. The entire thread is a fishing expedition.
And more additives, to boot...Just put an extra quart in it. It'll have more oil.
Week after week this becoming the in thing my thoughts from the beginning
Since this poster is spanking new, maybe clarifying a few things:
1. Your oil needs additives, your engine needs additives. Oil is an engineered product and additives are what makes the oil work at various temperatures, what provide cold flow ability, what allow contaminants to be held in suspension. When you buy oil, you cannot get additional utility by adding more "oil" and thereby having fewer "additives." If you are buying "oil," as a modern-day consumer, it is more correct to think of the oil as one item that is comprises base oils, and additives. You need your additives.
2. The engine in question operates at low RPM and generally speaking in an unstressed situation in this application. (Correct me if you are towing heavy equipment regularly). I would look it up, but I am thinking that your sump holds eight plus quarts. Even if you are going for incredibly frequent OCI's, 5,000 miles would be an absolute minimum.
3. SuperTech oil is great stuff, but assuredly not for the reasons that you mention. Supertech from WalMart, Amazon Basics - if still available, and Kirkland synthetic all come from the same blender (generally as that could vary) and always bring a very solid oil, comparable to QS full synthetic, Pennzoil, Castrol, Valvoline and many other "cheaper" synthetics. Kirkland Costco has a sale and will sell you two jugs for approx. $30 a few times a year. That's $15 for five quarts. The very similar Quaker State Full Syn is usually $22-23 on Walmart. That is what Supertech oil is all about. It's also always available in as much time as it takes to drive to Walmart.
I appreciate the impetus to provide excellent maintenance to this very capable vehicle, and respect the thought about oil, but the OP lays bear some pretty big gaps in knowledge that won't help in understanding.... I will admit that there will never, ever be an issue with using Supertech, in-spec, on 3,000 Intervals.
1. Your oil needs additives, your engine needs additives. Oil is an engineered product and additives are what makes the oil work at various temperatures, what provide cold flow ability, what allow contaminants to be held in suspension. When you buy oil, you cannot get additional utility by adding more "oil" and thereby having fewer "additives." If you are buying "oil," as a modern-day consumer, it is more correct to think of the oil as one item that is comprises base oils, and additives. You need your additives.
2. The engine in question operates at low RPM and generally speaking in an unstressed situation in this application. (Correct me if you are towing heavy equipment regularly). I would look it up, but I am thinking that your sump holds eight plus quarts. Even if you are going for incredibly frequent OCI's, 5,000 miles would be an absolute minimum.
3. SuperTech oil is great stuff, but assuredly not for the reasons that you mention. Supertech from WalMart, Amazon Basics - if still available, and Kirkland synthetic all come from the same blender (generally as that could vary) and always bring a very solid oil, comparable to QS full synthetic, Pennzoil, Castrol, Valvoline and many other "cheaper" synthetics. Kirkland Costco has a sale and will sell you two jugs for approx. $30 a few times a year. That's $15 for five quarts. The very similar Quaker State Full Syn is usually $22-23 on Walmart. That is what Supertech oil is all about. It's also always available in as much time as it takes to drive to Walmart.
I appreciate the impetus to provide excellent maintenance to this very capable vehicle, and respect the thought about oil, but the OP lays bear some pretty big gaps in knowledge that won't help in understanding.... I will admit that there will never, ever be an issue with using Supertech, in-spec, on 3,000 Intervals.
What evil people. Fishing for a conversation about engine oil. Evil. Just plain evil.
Did it ever occur to you that the guy might just be a genuine nerd, and just wants someone to talk to about their nerdy nerd stuff? No one person on this forum is not a nerd, not one. His wife and girlfriend
Someone as great as you at finding information on this site, could easily point the guy in the right direction.
As it were, you and you alone, by your sharp opposition about oil analysis and interpretations, helped me learn tremendously. FYI
Yea take a quart of water and add salt and sugar to it weigh it each time it will be slightly heavier each time, oil is the same way less " stuff " in eth oil more oil by weight
Really, it only takes typing "Supertech" in the search function. Something you and I can do, as well as the OP.
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Please stop throwing those baseless and silly accusations.
So what are the additives in Supertech oil and what are the amounts? Not all additives are the same in effectiveness so you have to make a value judgement by type and amount.
Just wondering how you came up with the basis of your claim that it has less.
Some people are not good at searching. And while I appreciate the props,vI am not that good at it either.
The second part is obviously a joke.
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I need to edit the above post.......there is a portion where i interjected "his wife and girlfriend" .....i am not sure where that came from, maybe copied and pasted by accident. not sure ...but it was not intended for this discussion.
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More than once over the years have I heard it mentioned that an oil contained X% of additives and viscosity improvers, leaving less actual oil than a quart in a quart bottle. So it has been talked about before. Depending on the additive and its percentage, some may have considered those additives an attribute or a detriment, and honestly, I can't recall the details of those conversations. But, it has been discussed. The only aspect of those discussions that I recall was that less viscosity improver (and therefore more "oil") was considered an advantage, although less overall percentage of additive can in certain situations, be consider advantageous.
In an issue of Machinery Lubrication there was a chart used in an article about the subject of additives in lubricating oil of various types. Here's an excerpt from that chart as it applies to this conversation:
What’s the advantage?
How is this post relevant to motor oil performance?
Not the OP. He/She is capable of determining what the best motor oils is for his/her application, and the criteria behind his/her reasoning. Pretty sure he/she can find and use the search function.
Methinks we hath been mightily trolled.
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