Oil choices

[bangbangskeetskeet]

About to blow everyones mind with filters. Napa's house brand, is repackaged WIX. K&N's are WIX with a little nut on them. Fram filters are absolute garbage, I've seen 3 motors, with my own 2 eyeballs, fail specifically because of them coming apart.

As far as what I use, Rotella 10w-30 and a Napa filter. Rotella is one of the few "dirty" oil's left. Meaning it has all the stuff engines love, and hippies hate. In the winter I step down to a decent name brand 5w-20

What about swaping from Mobil 1 to Rotella?
What would the advantage of Rotella be over Mobil 1?

[charcoal03silvy]

I take the advise my Uncle gives. He's worked in the oil industry and product distribution for over 30 years combined....

"They're all about the same"

[Frenchy]

What about swaping from Mobil 1 to Rotella?
What would the advantage of Rotella be over Mobil 1?

Cost. I get Rotella in bulk for the tractors. Few 5 gallon pales of 15w40 for them, couple pales of 10w30 for my truck, my brothers '91 and Dad's old Ford. The TDI's get Castrol Syntec. The HD gets Mobil 1. 4 licensed drivers in the house. 6 vehicles licensed and on the road. Plus my bike, lawn mowers, ATV, etc. Go through lots of oil. And I have about 4 binders of service records I keep.

[2boosted]

I take the advise my Uncle gives. He's worked in the oil industry and product distribution for over 30 years combined....

"They're all about the same"

My Dad with 50 years experience owning Heavy Duty equipment use to say that all the time....

Until his beloved D8R's and D155AX's engines start dying at 2-3K hours due to premature wear.

He had to be convinced by Techs, Gurus and David Blane !

Now he knows new tricks !!!

[st8kfinger]

i ran fram filters for a whole bunch of years, (since i was 16), until i saw some u tube videos, i was looking for some videos on the oil hydrocracking process & stumbled across a filter comparison, i will NEVER put another fram filter on anything. i have probably 50 napa gold filters on my shelf now, they run them 50% off every now & then but its not advertised, $3 for a good filter isnt bad. the fram filters i had left got 7.62 holes put in them. some auto parts store always has oil on sale and i dont buy oil at napa & since im such a nice guy (lol) i always ask someone in the parts store what filter they need & give the filter they give me with the oil away