Originally Posted By: KenO
Originally Posted By: fdcg27
A diesel oil does well in a diesel engine?
Who woulda thunk it?
LOL!
I'm guessing that you got this oil for around .25/qt net last year?
I'd say that you got a steal based upon how well this stuff works in this old and well used Benz.
This looks like a good choice of oil for this engine and yes, it is CJ4.
Nice boron content as well as a nice balance of calcium and magnesium and enough moly for it to work.
A stout oil that I'm glad to have bought at .25/qt net myself.
I got it for $15/2.5Gal jug. And I bought 10 of them lol. And use Mann
filters (I own a shop that does a lot of Euro work, I stock mann & hengst for most of the stuff we see.
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I also bought the Rotella T5 10W-30 @AAP for $15 - $12.50 Shell rebate. Definitely "CJ-4", what is a surprise is the amount of Br and the flash point. Both are higher than what was posted in the archives. My synthetic UOA PP & TGMO never posted close to 450F.
PQIA Shell T5 10W-30 11-19-2014
Wear metals are great, but I would ask Blackstone to re-run the UOA because these great results will subject your opinion to "confirmation bias" plus you did not run a VOA for this particular 2.5 jug.