5W-20 or 5W-30
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Blackone51
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Who said Mobil 1 salesman.
No, I have always used castrol syntec, I guess I love John Force.
Pearl02
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What ever you go with, stick w 5-20w. That's what the owners manual call for. I use RP 5-20w in my car. Also use it in my pickup. Pearl02.
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Wow great post, you must be 16
How about giving a legit reason why you think it "sux"I use nothing but Mobil 1 myself, usually 5w-30.
I can tell you from experience mobil 1 is good stuff. I work on ships and every engineer ive known swears by mobil 1 for the engines. Now, if a professional engineer on a ship, who's job is to maintain a 10,000 hp diesel motor says that mobil 1 is good stuff, i believe it. Im talking about someone who spends every day of their professional career working around motors the size of a house.
One engineer i knew told me for a long time they used mobil 1 and the engines stayed clean all the time, no carbon build-up, no gunk....well when they switched to castrol he said everything changed, they started finding excessive carbon build-up, all kinds of sludge and gunk that they never had when they were still using mobil 1...what does that tell you? And that was on twin 6000hp diesels....
Pearl02
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When I see something "Sux" I also want to know why. I haven't used Mobil 1 but my buddy's Vette came out of the factory with it. It must be great stuff if GM is willing to use it in a 40K car back in the day. Pearl02.Wow great post, you must be 16
I use nothing but Mobil 1 myself, usually 5w-30.
I can tell you from experience mobil 1 is good stuff. I work on ships and every engineer ive known swears by mobil 1 for the engines. Now, if a professional engineer on a ship, who's job is to maintain a 10,000 hp diesel motor says that mobil 1 is good stuff, i believe it. Im talking about someone who spends every day of their professional career working around motors the size of a house.
One engineer i knew told me for a long time they used mobil 1 and the engines stayed clean all the time, no carbon build-up, no gunk....well when they switched to castrol he said everything changed, they started finding excessive carbon build-up, all kinds of sludge and gunk that they never had when they were still using mobil 1...what does that tell you? And that was on twin 6000hp diesels....
IIGood
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My '03 GT has 97,500 miles on it and I've used nothing but Motorcraft 5W-20 in it with Motorcraft filter. No problems here.
Flghtmstr1
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My car has 76,000 miles on it. I used Mobil 1 5W-20 until I put the blower on, now I'm running 5W-30.
sneaky98gt
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Although I've heard people say to use 5W-20, I use synthetic Valvoline 5W-30. Considering that that is what has been put in my dad's Ford van (with over 500,000 miles) for 15 years now, it's gonna be what I stick with. Just my .02.
-Will
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sorry, I my spelling goes to **** late at night after a few too many...
Yes, it's the best stuff out there.
My last stang had a 150k plus and I ran 5w-20 on all three of my mustangs and thought it was great. He kept trying to convince me to switch. Well, his 5.4 2v f150 has 300k on it, with "mobil"1, and he swears by it. He puts it in all his company vehicles that aren't doing any heavy towing. Cost a bit more, but you don't have to change your oil quite as often.
BurningRubber
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I use 5w30, but my 'Stang has a Windsor 4.6, and that's what the owners manual calls for.
It also has higher miles, so I rather run the thicker stuff than the thinner stuff to combat oil consumption.
It also has higher miles, so I rather run the thicker stuff than the thinner stuff to combat oil consumption.
Flghtmstr1
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If I'm not mistaken, the Modular engines were designed to run on 5W-30. Ford changed the specification to 5W-20 to improve fuel economy.
BurningRubber
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you are correct. although some applications use different weights of oil. the GT Supercar and GT500 use 5w50, and in other countries 5w40 is specified for the modular motors.
BurningRubber
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5w50? Jesus, hahaha.
I guess when you are running a motor really hard and the oil thins with the increased heat, you want some fairly thick oil to still be circulating.
I guess when you are running a motor really hard and the oil thins with the increased heat, you want some fairly thick oil to still be circulating.
Wow great post, you must be 16
I use nothing but Mobil 1 myself, usually 5w-30.
I can tell you from experience mobil 1 is good stuff. I work on ships and every engineer ive known swears by mobil 1 for the engines. Now, if a professional engineer on a ship, who's job is to maintain a 10,000 hp diesel motor says that mobil 1 is good stuff, i believe it. Im talking about someone who spends every day of their professional career working around motors the size of a house.
One engineer i knew told me for a long time they used mobil 1 and the engines stayed clean all the time, no carbon build-up, no gunk....well when they switched to castrol he said everything changed, they started finding excessive carbon build-up, all kinds of sludge and gunk that they never had when they were still using mobil 1...what does that tell you? And that was on twin 6000hp diesels....
Why did they switch? I have always understood that switching oils was a bad idea because they all use different additives. If they switched brands, than the different additives more and likely freed some of the gunk and carbon deposits already there and allowed them to move around. If they took that big a chance on changing oils when the other one was working, especially on a 600Hp ship engine, they they need to be hit in the head.
