What motor oil you running

[wytstang]

The only stuff to stay away from is that "Synthetic Blend" crap like Castrol sells...

It's a literal mix of their synthetic and conventional oils- while this sounds good in theory, in practice it can lead to a dangerous situation under extreme heat and high RPM...the two oils can separate, creating a dangerous condition in which proper lubrication isn't provided.

While this isn't likely to happen normally, the fact that it can happen period is enough to keep me away from "synthetic blend"...that, and for $1 more a quart I can get the real synthetic stuff.

Um I really think you have your facts mixed up here. I've never heard of or seen reports of anything of that nature ever happaning. If this were fact then I seriously doubt Motorcraft would be switching almost all there dino oil to synthetic blends. The only dino oil they offer is 5/10w20 and below for gas power last I cheked, they no longer offer 10w30 dino only syn-blend 10w40 in syn-blend. Also motorcraft 10w30 is only 2.07 each full syn are $4+.

 

[MysteryMachine]

I don't really know what all happened. I'm happ with good old oil so thats what I'll continue to use

 

[bill302]

castrol GTX 10w30 & motorcraft FL1a filter

 

[drakesdad]

Penn 10 W 30

 

[Roland69]

right now I have pen 20W-50 but thes summer I will be puting in some RP 10W-30

 

[Killercanary]

I do use a FL1A filter too.

 

[2L8ULUZ2]

Been running mobil 1 10W30 for six years now. Just to prove how good that stuff is when I took my motor out at 106K miles it was extremely clean and you could still see the cross hatch marks on the cylinder walls. That motor is still running in another car to this day with no rebuild and has about 205K on it and still runs mobil 1.

 

[Koniz]

Im running mobile 1 10w30 Penzoil or Ford Filter motor has 213,000

 

[5.0_GT_kid]

Mobil 1 5W_20 here

 

[wytstang]

I had forgot I had said that lol, I was like when did I say that lol.

 

[Green 94 5.0]

motorcraft 10w30 FL1A filter

 

[a_k]

I dont use motor oil, it frees up a few horsepower.

I'm accually using the engine oil bypass kit from kalecoauto. It routes the oil around the block so it's a 2 in 1, it doesnt get dirty and it runs cooler.

 

[MysticKeith50]

the funny thing is there are only 3 companies that manufacture oil for vehicles in the world, which in turn sells it to mobil, pennzoil, etc......but anyway i use motorcraft 10-30 and filter.

 

[R.J.]

Mobil Clean 5000 10w-40, FL1A filter
Still change it a 3000 miles

 

[LGSCHMIDTJR]

Motorcraft 10-30 syn-blend and Motorcraft Filter.


Laurence

 

[igotyofire]

i used to run mobil 5w30 syn, but now i run 10w30 for some extra protection on those cold starts,hehe. car now has 105k so i figured id give it a lil more protection specially since it gets driven hard. my car burns about 1 quart every 2000-2500 miles depending on how i drive it. and i usually change every 3k, how much oil does everyone else burn?

 

[Koniz]

the funny thing is there are only 3 companies that manufacture oil for vehicles in the world, which in turn sells it to mobil, pennzoil, etc......but anyway i use motorcraft 10-30 and filter.

I had also heard that Kendall makes the motorcraft oil, I dont know if its true or not but Kendall is decent oil

 

[wytstang]

I had also heard that Kendall makes the motorcraft oil, I dont know if its true or not but Kendall is decent oil

No conoco-phillips distrubutes Kendall/motorcraft, there are more I can post the info if anybody is intrested on who makes who's oil.

 

[Koniz]

oh ok I just knew that kendall and motorcraft are the same oil

 

[Koniz]