What Oil do I use...Valvoline Durablend. Hey...It's inexpensive, works
great...and why waste extra money on oil that you're just going to change at
3500-5000 mile intervals...My old 1969 Javelin has never seen any Synthetic
(or Synth-Blend) oils in its life and the only reason I had to rebuild the
engine...at 180K miles...was because one of the rings broke and screwed up
the block.
My dad is an Amsoil Rep and he's tried their brands in his cars...what does
he use...Castrol GTX 10w30. He changes the oil every 3500 miles and the
engines last just as long.
Bernd D. Ratsch
Pflugerville, TX
bernd@texas.net
http://lonestar.texas.net/~bernd
1997 Dakota SLT-CC (3.9L)
License Plate Frame: "Don't Follow Me...I'm Trolling for Toyota's"
Song for the Day: "Gonna buy me a Dodge Truck and blow those Fords off the
road....."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Edward J.
> Abrams, Jr.
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 6:36 PM
> To: DML
> Subject: Re: DML: Mobil-1 vs. Amsoil
>
>
> I use synthetic in my Dakota. What kind? It depends...what's on sale?
> :)
> So far, I've used Mobil-1 and Castrol Syntec, and I ran one change using
> Valvoline DuraBlend when switching over from dino-oil ( at 12,000
> miles). At this point, I probably wouldn't use Amsoil, mainly because
> of what I found on one of their web pages:
>
> http://www.amsoil.com/products/xlf.html
>
> If you examine the chart, you'll notice that Amsoil, at the top, has the
> least 'wear scar', and the others show increasing 'wear scar' going down
> the list; you'll also notice that the Amsoil porduct is 5w30, the Syntec
> is 5w50, most of the others are 10w30 and the bottom is 20w50. What
> does this tell you, besides that thinner oils are better for wear
> protection? It tells me something about the company that markets this
> product. It just raises one red flag too many, in my book (your books
> may vary <grin>).
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed
>
> 'There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics."
>
>
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