Originally Posted by madeej11
To accumulate 138 miles it must have been moved in and out of your garage an awful lot. Obviously plenty of cold starts and besides running around without an air filter, what's your take on why the metals are so high? Could the wear numbers be that high just from the aforementioned?
Forgive me if I was unclear. I had all those short starts on the oil since September 2018 until January 2020 when I got it on the road. I then drove it for 138 miles. Couldn't justify dumping the oil with no actual miles on it.
All of the miles on the road have been with the air filter on. Hoping metals trend down over a few short ocis. Running a fram ultra for the oci hopefully pulls lots of nastiness out
Originally Posted by bullwinkle
This engine is from the era when thick oil with lots of ZDDP, moly, etc. was the norm-I think I would be running whatever Big 3 15W40 HDEO I could find cheap, start with fairly short OCIs of 1000 miles or so, and work it up to 3000 mile ones. Super Tech/Citgo at $9.99/gallon wouldn't be bad either.
Currently my fill is Castrol edge 0w40 and I forgot to mention that I used the rislone zddp additive in this UOA and in my current fill and plan to do so moving forward except maybe when I run some hdeo in the summer. It gets cold here and I don't want to run a 15w anything right now. Had trouble starting it with the 10w40 when it was really cold