oil talk, performance synthetics

[TyCorr]

I have had my truck running Surprex Gold ESP 15w-40 since it was new. Its great oil but I am not sure if you can get it anywhere but in the midwest. Its made in Council Bluff, IA. I think it might only be sold through Growmark, Fast Stops, and other FS co-ops.

I live in IL, faststop.right down the street, agview fs next door, never seen it.

For a little.clarity in this thread, if you want to run synthetic oil stick with whats been tested, used, and verified as synthetic oil. Sorry guys, rotella.does not make synthetic oil. They put a bunch of.crap into petroleum or.blended base stock and.call it synthetic. Why isnt it cheaper if its lacking the expensive part of what makes synthetics costly?

All this said: valvoline extreme blue 5w-40 is superb, as is mobil 1 full syn 5w40 turbo diesel. Schaeffers has a.huge.following too but I cant vouch for it but would run it if I were forced to.order oil in bulk. Royal purple and amsoil arent worth the money, imo, and yes Ive used both. Sure some people have good luck.with amsoil but some.dont so lets not recommend something as such. Royal purple is crap for our trucks with heui systems.

When it comes to conventional, dino, petroleum oils use.what works.FOR YOU. My truck.ran 230ish something thousand.miles, troublefree, on pennzoil 15w40. I never had any trouble with oil quality until I had.custom tunes installed. Then I would notice oil shearing and hot idle was.choppy a nd bla.bla. I have since used delvac and delo400 and honestly.the delo.400 was one.of.my.favorites bar none. Depending on the.cold.weather starts with it, I may not go back to synthetic. But if I do it'll be Mobil 1. EVERY other vehicle we own runs mobil 1 synthetic oil. The Lincoln LS gets 5w20 and a bosch filter(i cut.filters open and if I don't like what I see they dont get used again). The van gets 0w20. The eclipse gets 5w30(although im not sure what the new motor will call for)goThe 69 bronco gets 10w40. My cars all have big miles on them.

Im blathering but synthetic oil is so expensive you would be well served to ho with something known good. We had a good oil.conversation with a good source of info at "that other site" back in the day and the cummins blue(valvoline extreme blue) was pretty well rounded.compared to others. Just sayin.

 

[George4]

If they sell oil or fuel they have it, I get mine in 2.5 gal jugs. The diesel they have is called Dieselex Gold. I try to get my fuel from Fast Stop, I get better mileage on it. That is the same fuel UPS runs here in the midwest too. Agview FS might just not do a good job promoting it.

 

[TyCorr]

If they sell oil or fuel they have it, I get mine in 2.5 gal jugs. The diesel they have is called Dieselex Gold. I try to get my fuel from Fast Stop, I get better mileage on it. That is the same fuel UPS runs here in the midwest too. Agview FS might just not do a good job promoting it.

Ill have to ask because I used 2k gallons of faststop diesel last year and never saw that oil. And I wholeheartedly agree that faststop has great fuel. I use.that or shell from one station in peru,il(it comes from the mobil refinery in joliet). That mobil sourced diesel is good for 10% better economy.compared to faststop diesel. I dont.favor one or.the other however.

I appreciate your input though! Thank you. Whats the cost on those 2.5 gal containers?