I have been using Ams oil in the LBCs for over a year now, I am very
pleased, Much quieter on start up, Good check valve in their oil filter.
cooler and quieter running, Better oil pressure. I have been a state
mechanic since there were dinosaurs, We used Delvac a mobil synthetic, They
switched to regular oil and started loosing engines like mad. We are back
with Delvac, Engines are again holding up. Makes me believe.
Carl E. These are deisels and we get 300,000 before we do a PRS.
( Pistons, Rings & sleeves ) and then they go at least that again.
ccrobins wrote:
> Somewhere in this thread there was a reference to "no more black oil"
> when using synthetics. I read a tech article some years ago - in one of
> the motoring mags - which stated that when your oil turned black it was
> because the detergent additives were doing their jobs by (among other
> things) keeping combustion byproducts (carbon?) in suspension so that
> they could be drained out of the engine with the old oil. We change the
> oil mainly because the additives lose their effectiveness through
> contamination and chemical breakdown. So there you have another point
> of view.
>
> One of the problems with our hi-tech world is keeping up with the
> changes, both in the technology and in the current thinking about it.
>
> CR
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