Originally Posted By: CONMCK
Originally Posted By: alarmguy
Originally Posted By: DoubleWasp
Wish I had gotten a picture. New color scheme, and a tag that proudly boasts "50% less wear than CJ-4!".
I have seen one chart demonstrating that CK4 gives better wear numbers than CJ-4. Any other new info out there?
Im not so sure why anyone would trash Delo over a factual statement.
Delo is saying exactly that, CK4 50% less wear. As someone above pointed out, that is the average of the standard.
Yes, its marketing, but they are marketing for the standard. I have no idea of the conditions etc.
Engines used to last 80,000 miles, decades later they now last 100,000+ more miles, think its fair to say the improvement in oil helped.
First off, 50% less wear is 1/2 the wear meaning you should be able to get double the service therefore;
The current duramax LML engines are lasting up to 1,000,000 miles. Are you saying the new CK oils will extend that out to 2,000,000 miles??
No, it doesn't work like that. However, going from memory, I believe Delo has published somewhere that you could see an increase of 20% in life to overhaul using Delo SDE (CK-4) over the old 400LE (CJ-4). It may be in their "transition guide" (?)
Does anyone expect Delo or anyone else to say- "we've spent the last six years and hundreds of millions of dollars developing and testing multiple formulations...and um...well, we got nothing" ?