Good candidate for a UOA?
What's the sump capacity? If you added 4L of make-up oil that
Overall system capacity is ~4.5L.
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Do you do lots of short runs, or a lot of highway runs?
Mostly short runs, with the occasional very long highway (ie: 500 mi) highway run.
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If you're on the highway for long periods, and very few cold starts, a OCI of this long wouldn't be entirely inappropriate, provided the oil is holding up adequately.
It gets lots of cold starts. At -20C and often quite a bit lower in Canada. I rarely use the block heater (figure that if I can't get it started at the origin, I won't have any chance at the destination!). I don't 'warm up' or idle either. Even on the coldest (-35C) days, 10-20 seconds at the most until I'm into gear and driving.
The relative lack of heat might be on my side, as it rarely idles in traffic for anything more than a couple minutes at street lights or stop signs, even in the summer.
Originally Posted By: 19jacobob93
Looks fine
Varnish doesn't do much harm if any at all, I've seen car engines with 700,000km+ on them doing 15-20k OCIs on bulk dino and varnish didn't stop them from getting to that mileage!
Yeah brand new cranks are darker-metal, so its really just a light coating of varnish.