Originally Posted by dnewton3
Originally Posted by daved5150
.... I change mine when it tells me to which is about 7.2k miles or so, give or take. I'm just over half way through my last oil change and it will be my 4th UOA done by Blackstone. I run MC10w30. All prior UOAs have come back great. This current oil run I added LubeGard's Heavy Duty Engine Protectant additive in the proper amount. I am curious to see what the next UOA will reveal. I also run an FS2500 bypass.
Trying to get here more often and participate more than I have. Looking forward to your input.
For your 7.2k mile OCIs, you're wasting money on the additive and the bypass filter. For such a short OCI, those things won't affect the wear rates at all.
Gotta figure bypass will remove some soot, and reduce wear numbers in that respect. Wear numbers drop a lot in a 6.7 when deleted, likely due at least in part to much less soot in the oil. Bypass should work in a similar manner I would think.
I'm not a bypass guy, but it's got to help reduce wear to some extent.