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I just wanted to dump do a quick and easy oil change while i was mid trip on the road. I have a valvomax drain plug on it so it was easy to just hook the tube and send the oil into some empty containers witout a mess. The oil i dumped only had 2500 miles on it I wasn't too worried about the...

Fram Titanium.

3,100 Miles on Valvoline extended protection. 90% of that was towing a travel trailer. Had a weird high iron thing going on in the spring. I am now suspecting that was from letting the truck sit for extended periods of time during the winter (MN) and short tripping it when i did use it never...

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4,000 miles and 2 oil changes later Iron has dropped down to 10. Not sure why the 1st two samples had elevated iron. Perhaps from sitting all winter and never really getting up to operating temps when it was used to burn off any condensation? Either way current oil sample has 2500 miles on the...

Just did a 2,000 miles oil change. Most of this interval was towing a 6klb travel trailer. In the middle of the change a neighbor came over and asked for something, distracted me and i forgot to take sample. Doh! I did cut open the Mopar filter and i'm not finding any metal particles at all...

Yes i saw the same thing. Its concerning to me. What i'm wondering is 75-80% of this engine is for towing a 5500lb trailer. Thats well withing the capacity of this truck, but does constant towing in the summer, and short trips in the cold MN winters just making this wear more? I can't really...

Here is the blackstone report. You can also see the difference between penzoil platinum and ultra side by side. I took the report into the dealer and had a tech come out and listen to the motor. We dont hear any lifter associated ticking. The motor sounds pretty smooth actually. The service...

Well i got my 1k mile oil sample back on fresh PUP 5w-20. Looks the iron content in the first test was not an error. After 938 miles (probably 2/3 of this is towing a 5500lb trailer). iron is up at 32 already. thats about .034/mile, previous test was .025/mile. If i use that math to compare the...

Gotta thank everyone for the comments on my report. I'm approaching 1k on the current oil (PUP 5w-20). I'll pump out some oil thru the dipstick and send it off to blackstone and see how its trending. Once i hit 3k i'll dump it. I'm leaning towards 5w-30 with a ms-6395 spec so i have some basis...

i'm hoping its a bad test. I do not really hear any knocking right now. Just the usual startup noises that go away quickly. The oil that was tested, it pretty much was the truck being parked in the winter with the occasional once or twice a week grocery run. In the summer it gets most of its...

I'm kicking myself for not getting an oil report sooner so i had a benchmark for this truck. Yet here i am. Just got my oil report. 22k miles on my ram 1500 5.7. I've been consistent changing oil every 5k miles with either 5w-20 penzoil ultra platinum or penzoil platinum depending on what i...