YB Pennzoil testimonials report here!!!

[strombony]

I'm a Pennzoil user myself with good results, but the old wives tale about the YB (without mention..you all know what it is) never seems to die, NEVER

I want to hear from those of you, especially mechanics who have worked on engines or owned vehicles driven under all conditons and have found their engine to be clean and perfect running condition after hundres of thousand of miles.

After that, if any of you know people as I do who believe without a doubt that Pennzoil causes sludge...then show them this thread.

 

[Chris142]

My dad put 120K on an air cooled VW bug in the 70's using Pennzoil 10w-40. He never had to do any engine work to it other than adjusting the valves and retorquing the heads ocasionally.

He got talked into rebuilding the engine by a neighbor although it was running fine and not using any oil. It's still in pieces in the garage as he never finished rebuilding it.

The bores still had the hone marks and the insides of the valve covers and top of the heads were still bare metal.

 

[Chris142]

Here ya go. Been sitting 25 yrs in the garage right where he left it. Got lots of dust but no tar/sludge.

 

[Gary Allan]

You can't fool me, Chris. You heated it up and made candles out of the stuff when you were into some craft type chick.

 

[JayhawkRoy]

1991 Corolla, 250K with regular Pennzoil and Fram filters.
1994 Geo Prizm, same, 225K and counting.
2001 Mazda MPV 110K miles, all but last 7.5K used Pennzoil. Put in Pennzoil Platinum this time.

No engine work; no problems, no reason to tear down engine.

 

[wander2039]

In my mom's 92 Plymouth Voyager 3.3 we used 10w30 Pennzoil from 25k to well over 100k back in 94-99. Never had any issues. Spotless inside from what I can remember. Even used Fram filters. That's back when they had a Fram plant in my home town, Nevada MO.

 

[Gary in Sandy Eggo]

I had a 1986 Oldsmobile that I put 280,000 miles on using 20W-50 Pennzoil. Mostly changed the oil every 5000 miles, but on a few occasions went close to 10,000 miles between oil changes.

Car got totaled when damaged in the right rear quarter-panel (a car with 280K miles on it ain't worth much). Looking into the valve area on every oil change, the visible metal eventually turned from bright silver to a very light tan color.

I like Pennzoil because it has one of the higher flash points of similar weight oils.

Regards, Gary in Sandy Eggo

 

[strombony]

Originally Posted By: Gary in Sandy Eggo
I had a 1986 Oldsmobile that I put 280,000 miles on using 20W-50 Pennzoil. Mostly changed the oil every 5000 miles, but on a few occasions went close to 10,000 miles between oil changes.

Car got totaled when damaged in the right rear quarter-panel (a car with 280K miles on it ain't worth much). Looking into the valve area on every oil change, the visible metal eventually turned from bright silver to a very light tan color.

I like Pennzoil because it has one of the higher flash points of similar weight oils.

Regards, Gary in Sandy Eggo


So what does the metal turning from bright silver to light tan indicate that an oil is doing?

 

[strombony]

not too many Pennzoil users it seems

 

[demarpaint]

I used it from my first OC to my last OC on a 1985 Ford E-150, sold it with about 160,000 miles. I changed careers and had no need for it, it was sold about 6 years ago and it is still being used for a delivery service by the guy that bought it. I had changed a valve cover gasket on it at about 150,000 miles and the top end was spotless. It saw 3,000 mile OCI's (10W-30) never used a drop of oil, and I never had any engine problems.

I only used Pennzoil and Mobil 1 until I joined this site. I now use Conventional oil that's on sale in my 93 Aerostar, and PP in my new Jeep and 88 E-150.

Frank D

 

[ARB1977]

Ive never used it but i know a guy at work who has Chevy truck with the 350 in it and has almost 300K. He uses nothing but Pennzoil.

 

[panthermike]

Haven't used it either but Probably will start using the PP. Put this in my brothers 07 F150 about 1K ago and it seems to like it.

One funny thing I recently heard was from a guy on ford-trucks.com. He started a thread asking if pennzoil was bad to use, because he had heard the "myth". Here's the funny part: "should I stop using this oil, been using it for the past 250K with no issues but want to keep good care of the truck"

I think you answered your own question guy.

 

[y2k345]

I drive an 82 Pontiac to work, burns oil when using Esso, and after about 2k Km have to add a Litre. When I use pennzoil of same weight it doesn`t use any. I like it!

 

[ChiTDI]

165k in an '86 Caddy. Engine runs like a clock as the body falls off around it.
Nothing but YB 10w30.

 

[aquariuscsm]

My dad`s 1990 Olds 88 has used nothing but YB 10W30 since brand new. It`s nearing the 500k mark and still runs like brand new. Doesn`t leak or use a bit of oil. That`s one of the reasons that made me switch back to conventional oil. If cars are going hundreds of miles with conventional,you can`t go wrong with it. All of my fluids are now conventional.

 

[Travis99LS1]

I use Pennzoil Platinum 5w30 in my camaro,in my fathers 2002 S10, and my sister's 06 honda civic..Im a BMW mechanic and we use Pennzoil Platinum 5w30 at the dealer i work at..The M54 engine is notorious for valve cover gaskets leaking so i've changed dozens of them..these cars go 15-20K miles on there oil changes and when you pull the valve cover off everything looks nice and clean. I recently did a cam swap on my camaro and everything looked spotless inside my motor, the car had 125K miles on it when i did the swap. No current motor oil causes sludge..if a motor is sludged up its due to either owner neglect, or other mechanical issues with the motor.

 

[addyguy]

I've used 'mostly' YB 5w30 in all of my cars...worked at W-M for years, and got the oil changed there...never an oil-related problem with any of them (big suprise). Very, very good oil, especially when you take a closer look at it via used oil analysis on this board....

 

[Steve S]

Originally Posted By: strombony
Originally Posted By: Gary in Sandy Eggo
I had a 1986 Oldsmobile that I put 280,000 miles on using 20W-50 Pennzoil. Mostly changed the oil every 5000 miles, but on a few occasions went close to 10,000 miles between oil changes.

Car got totaled when damaged in the right rear quarter-panel (a car with 280K miles on it ain't worth much). Looking into the valve area on every oil change, the visible metal eventually turned from bright silver to a very light tan color.

I like Pennzoil because it has one of the higher flash points of similar weight oils.

Regards, Gary in Sandy Eggo


So what does the metal turning from bright silver to light tan indicate that an oil is doing?
Does it matter?