The fleet where I work consists of several gm pick ups, 6 and 8 cylinders, 4.3s,4.8s and a lone 6.0 in 2001-2013's. A 5.4 liter econoline van, a 2009 escape 4 cyl., a 2014 3.5l explorer, 2010-2014 f150's 3.7s and 5.4s. A few 2001 and 2002 dodge 1500's 5.2s and 4.7s and one 2013 ram 4.7l. We also maintain various 4 cycle small engines, mostly kohler command twins, a few Briggs vangard twins, a Honda gx620? and and Kawasaki 18 hp twin.
We generally run 5k mile oci's but idling time is excessive. We're in south Louisiana so cold is not an issue.(was 79 degrees today) We've been running a local distributors label 10w30 conventional bulk in everything with a Napa gold filter. We usually phase our trucks out at 125-150 k unless something helps them along before then. We are getting 8 new f150's with the small ecoboost v6 tomorrow and I never really liked running the 10w30 in the 5-20 fords but with these new turbo trucks I like it less. Synthetics are not likely an option and I doubt they'll spring for any brand names either. Is there a better weight we could be using or stick to the 10w30?
We generally run 5k mile oci's but idling time is excessive. We're in south Louisiana so cold is not an issue.(was 79 degrees today) We've been running a local distributors label 10w30 conventional bulk in everything with a Napa gold filter. We usually phase our trucks out at 125-150 k unless something helps them along before then. We are getting 8 new f150's with the small ecoboost v6 tomorrow and I never really liked running the 10w30 in the 5-20 fords but with these new turbo trucks I like it less. Synthetics are not likely an option and I doubt they'll spring for any brand names either. Is there a better weight we could be using or stick to the 10w30?
