Hello,
So I have a couple of questions and an observation, after having used an initial Kreen cleaning.
My K24 (with 192k) burns a quart at around 2,000 miles - give or take. In the late fall, I did an initial run with a half quart for 600 miles. Had to change out a bit early, given the weather here. A week or so ago, I noticed that at 1700 miles into this run, I was only a half quart low.... thought I had made some headway. Today, I checked at 2000 miles, and am down a full quart. A bit bummed, but wondering how the burn rate increased dramatically in 300 miles. Any thoughts? I am sure it isn't a linear process, but thought it was odd. I also noticed something different (and yes, I know color means nothing), but at 2k, my oil was still a honey color... where as before, at 2k, it would have been a shade of light brown consistently regardless of oil used.
My plan is to run the last half quart of Kreen for a full 1000 miles on this run, and see where that goes. I bought the car with about 160k, (new car trade in), so there was very little if any records on maintenance.... so who knows what the previous owner did as far as oil changes goes.
I then plan on running consecutive changes of Maxlife, just to see if there is any effect on it. My previous 5k changes have always been whatever semi-syn is on sale at the time - Havoline, Mobil Super 5000, Formula Shell, etc. Not sure if Maxlife will have any effect, given it is burning and not leaking, but i figured 'what the heck'. May even go 10-30 during the warmer months, but yet tbd..
If nothing changes, after all this, then it is what it is. The K24, will run forever, being kept topped off and other maintenance taken care of. Oil is cheap. But this is what this site is about - experimentation, and hopefully data that might help someone down the road.
So I have a couple of questions and an observation, after having used an initial Kreen cleaning.
My K24 (with 192k) burns a quart at around 2,000 miles - give or take. In the late fall, I did an initial run with a half quart for 600 miles. Had to change out a bit early, given the weather here. A week or so ago, I noticed that at 1700 miles into this run, I was only a half quart low.... thought I had made some headway. Today, I checked at 2000 miles, and am down a full quart. A bit bummed, but wondering how the burn rate increased dramatically in 300 miles. Any thoughts? I am sure it isn't a linear process, but thought it was odd. I also noticed something different (and yes, I know color means nothing), but at 2k, my oil was still a honey color... where as before, at 2k, it would have been a shade of light brown consistently regardless of oil used.
My plan is to run the last half quart of Kreen for a full 1000 miles on this run, and see where that goes. I bought the car with about 160k, (new car trade in), so there was very little if any records on maintenance.... so who knows what the previous owner did as far as oil changes goes.
I then plan on running consecutive changes of Maxlife, just to see if there is any effect on it. My previous 5k changes have always been whatever semi-syn is on sale at the time - Havoline, Mobil Super 5000, Formula Shell, etc. Not sure if Maxlife will have any effect, given it is burning and not leaking, but i figured 'what the heck'. May even go 10-30 during the warmer months, but yet tbd..
If nothing changes, after all this, then it is what it is. The K24, will run forever, being kept topped off and other maintenance taken care of. Oil is cheap. But this is what this site is about - experimentation, and hopefully data that might help someone down the road.