Valvoline Restore and Protect
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Huh?
The North American market already has Valvoline Restore and Protect , just not the 10W-40 flavor. For the moment, that is an Australia exclusive it seems.
I meant Valvoline Restore and Protect 10W40, but failed to specify
OMs specify higher viscosity choices for the same engines used in Oz, and many people use thicker oil there. Probably why 10W-40 Valvoline Restore and Protect isn't sold in the USA, yet. Maybe it will be to a limited degree in the future.
20W-50, then the ratio won't be much of the thicker oil. Use this mixing calculator.
https://www.widman.biz/English/Calculators/Mixtures.html
ROTELLA!!!
Valvoline Restore and Protect is a full synthetic, so any full synthetic would probably be as "anti-Valvoline Restore and Protect" as the next. The goal is to achieve the KV100 goal that you want and not diluture the Valvoline Restore and Protect any more than possible.
Maybe a 5W-50 would work better to help keep the W rating closer to a 5W that Valvoline Restore and Protect is.
I think this might be one of your best ADVANCED choices (there is a typo in the heading 20W-20
):https://www.valvolineglobal.com/en/advanced-full-synthetic-sae-20w-50/
https://sharena21.springcm.com/Publ...2d889bd1/b545b08d-9553-ea11-9c34-ac162d889bd1
• HTHS: 5.4 cP
• Noack (% loss): <6
• Еxtra detergents help fight sludge and deposits
Enjoy!
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Wish they’d replace 5W-20 (most have gone 0W-20) with 5W-40
Have: 0W-20, 5W-30, and 5W-40 (3.5 HTHS) …
Being they target older vehicles - might be stuck with 5W-20 a while
Red Line performance series. I'd want something that runs as clean as possible on its own.
Exactly! I think that oil makes even more sense for older vehicles. I have recently bought a 2003 vehicle with 100k miles on the odometer, and the first i did was buying 5w30 Valvoline Restore and Protect, as that is what that engine uses.
Like, if your point is to clean the pistons ( along other parts), you need a dirty pistons to begin with, which means high milage cars, which means older engines
Patman
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It is odd that Valvoline Restore and Protect comes in both 5w-20 and 0w-20 when it really doesn’t need to have a 5w-20 version at all. It’s less about the technical aspect of things and more about what the average person understands regarding an oil’s viscosity numbers. Most of us on here fully understand that 0w-20 can easily be used for applications calling for 5w-20 but most oil buyers really don’t know that and they will only grab exactly what the owners manual says. So Valvoline really had no choice but to offer it in North America in those three viscosities because that covers a huge percentage of all of their customers vehicles
I completely agree with you on that. But Xw40 is a big market too i believe. But perhaps its fragmented into 5w,10w, etc.
Personally, I'd use Valvoline Advanced 20w-50. The Advanced is the non-EP and non-HM synthetic line and should have similar add pack strategy (less the secret ingredient) as Valvoline Restore and Protect. Advanced also has a nice 300ppm slug of moly in it.
I just picked up some Valvoline Restore and Protect 0w-20 for my 250K mile 2 valve 5.4. Curious to see if the head leaks any more appreciable amount.
For the last 4 or 5 years, it seems to develop a lash adjuster tick from the left head after running for a minute and it will do it for 3-4 minutes then go away. I've checked and retorqued the spark plugs a bunch, sounds different than an exhaust leak (those don't go away, it's in addition).
The right head was disassembled and reassembled back in January? 2023 when I had to pull it off, but never had the driver's side head apart to take a look at it.
Hoping the 0w-20 will flow a bit better and maybe "thin" out a bit more at temperatures and maybe clear out the lash adjuster that's making noise. This engine has an oil cooler so the oil really doesn't get that warm unless it's being run very hard while towing.
For the last 4 or 5 years, it seems to develop a lash adjuster tick from the left head after running for a minute and it will do it for 3-4 minutes then go away. I've checked and retorqued the spark plugs a bunch, sounds different than an exhaust leak (those don't go away, it's in addition).
The right head was disassembled and reassembled back in January? 2023 when I had to pull it off, but never had the driver's side head apart to take a look at it.
Hoping the 0w-20 will flow a bit better and maybe "thin" out a bit more at temperatures and maybe clear out the lash adjuster that's making noise. This engine has an oil cooler so the oil really doesn't get that warm unless it's being run very hard while towing.
I am not due for an oil change, for awhile, but might consider the 5w30 for my next change, in my coyote F150, just to see how it goes. At 255k, if it wants to blow, it probably will regardless if I keep using 0w40 Castrol or 5w30 Valvoline Restore and Protect. 
Oz Tuning recommends 5w50 for all coyote applications, but I have been too cheap to run it.
Oz Tuning recommends 5w50 for all coyote applications, but I have been too cheap to run it.
It will probably make it louder, noticably louder. I can't wait to drain my latest fill of Valvoline Restore and Protect in my coyote. I'll dump it at 3K, I'm at 2K now.
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