Gen3 oil?

ibestroken · Mar 10, 2014

Just curious to what kind of oil people are running in their trucks that run a gen3 and healthy injectors? Curious because you have to spin one longer before they start with no reservoir up top anymore. This is for a pullin truck if that matters. Ive always ran rotella 15w40 in the motor that's coming out of the truck.

Thanks

4.0l sahara · Mar 10, 2014

Mobil 1 5w-40 or Valvoline blue 5w-40

powerstrokenstang · Mar 10, 2014

Delo400.

Dieselboy. · Mar 10, 2014

4.0l sahara said:
Mobil 1 5w-40 or Valvoline blue 5w-40

Exactly the 2 I use.

Noticed with standard cat 15w40 I could barely make half an Oci. Before the truck would run rougher. Synthetic helped durastically

02BigD · Mar 10, 2014

Amsoil 5w40, 5000 mile changes.

ibestroken · Mar 10, 2014

Thanks for the input fellas. So I am assuming the 5w40 is gone be the way to go. And to 02bigD, this truck will prob never see another 5000k of road miles. It will be 99% pull truck.

Dieselboy. · Mar 10, 2014

Do yourself a favor. Throw that rotella crap in the trash. I wouldn't run that on my 500$ beater if it was free.

Mobil1
Schaffers
Valvoline
Amsoil
Etc

02BigD · Mar 10, 2014

ibestroken said:
Thanks for the input fellas. So I am assuming the 5w40 is gone be the way to go. And to 02bigD, this truck will prob never see another 5000k of road miles. It will be 99% pull truck.

I just mentioned that for folks who may search and come across this thread. I'm curious to hear someone with a pure pulling 7.3 and how often they change the oil.

X2 with what Dieselboy said. Any good synthetic, will serve your needs just fine.

powerstrokenstang · Mar 10, 2014

I change mine every 4 passes.

PSD POWER007 · Mar 10, 2014

Dieselboy. said:
Do yourself a favor. Throw that rotella crap in the trash. I wouldn't run that on my 500$ beater if it was free.

Mobil1
Schaffers
Valvoline
Amsoil
Etc

I'm curious why you say that...

PSDEng · Mar 10, 2014

powerstrokenstang said:
I change mine every 4 passes.

:whs: oil changes get expensive during the summer

DocBar · Mar 10, 2014

powerstrokenstang said:
I change mine every 4 passes.

Does the oil get sheared that quickly with your truck or are there other reasons? I usually just let my truck tell me when to change the oil. It might be 2k miles or 5k+ miles. Truck starts running like crap, it's time to change the oil.

lincolnlocker · Mar 10, 2014

PSDEng said:
:whs: oil changes get expensive during the summer

Stock up on delo 15-40 and mobile one filters off amazon for 7-8 bucks a piece and free shipping.

DocBar said:
Does the oil get sheared that quickly with your truck or are there other reasons? I usually just let my truck tell me when to change the oil. It might be 2k miles or 5k+ miles. Truck starts running like crap, it's time to change the oil.

being hooked to a sled and running well over stock rpm with big oil takes a toll on it quick. Why chance it?

live life full throttle

dieselman47 · Mar 10, 2014

Lucas 15w-40 with 2 quarts syn stabilizer. Your injectors will love it. Oil temps will run cooler.

DocBar · Mar 10, 2014

lincolnlocker said:
Stock up on delo 15-40 and mobile one filters off amazon for 7-8 bucks a piece and free shipping.

being hooked to a sled and running well over stock rpm with big oil takes a toll on it quick. Why chance it?

live life full throttle

I order all kinds of stuff from Amazon and never thought about oil. Good advice!! Thanks!!

lincolnlocker · Mar 10, 2014

dieselman47 said:
Lucas 15w-40 with 2 quarts syn stabilizer. Your injectors will love it. Oil temps will run cooler.

Please tell me your not talking about the lucas injector treatment chit?

live life full throttle

lincolnlocker · Mar 10, 2014

DocBar said:
I order all kinds of stuff from Amazon and never thought about oil. Good advice!! Thanks!!

Not oil.. just the mobile 1 filters. Walmart has the cheapest delo.

live life full throttle

OBS-Addiction97 · Mar 11, 2014

Schaffers 5w 40 full syn.

ibestroken · Mar 11, 2014

Wow! Every 4 passes. Bet that gets expensive. I pull 2.5 and hot street so that's typically 2 hooks an event. Not sure I will do it that often but thanks for the advice on oil though.

lincolnlocker · Mar 11, 2014

ibestroken said:
Wow! Every 4 passes. Bet that gets expensive. I pull 2.5 and hot street so that's typically 2 hooks an event. Not sure I will do it that often but thanks for the advice on oil though.

When you have 20k into a motor alone whats $60? why chance it?

live life full throttle