Truck suddenly burned Maxlife Synthetic 5w-30?

[D Bone]

Yea, it's pinging a bit, but it has it's whole life unless I run mid grade 89 octane. I know of the belly pan gasket failures, so if I continue to lose oil, I'll look into that fix.............Man I hope that's not the problem.


Darryl

 

[Gene K]

D Bone on all my 5.9L Dodges I found 2 Bottles of Gumout Regane to a full tank of gas would allow it to run 87 octane regular for a period of time before requiring a retreat. Evidently Carbon Buildup on the Pistons.

 

[Mr. Ram]

Hello all:

Guess what my friend, that little biut of ping/knock means its time has come for the belly pan gasket.

Read here

http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2000/09-05-00.htm

Get a good replacement, from either

http://www.hughesengines.com/
http://www.apsprecision.com/

Best of luck and after performing the test in that TSB, please report back. I myself got the hughes kit

 

[TallPaul]

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TallPaul, I've never heard of PAO burning off quicker. I thought its stability was one of the main reasons to go with PAO?

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Just throwing Moribundman's post out there as food for thought. Maybe not burn off, but slip past rings more easily? I could see it possibly with M1 as M1 tends to be thinner for it's grade IIRC. But I really doubt Maxlife would do that.