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"The Truth about Oil."
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 3:24 pm
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The diesels I used on the farm were the most expensive equipment I had. I paid close attention to maintenance. Filters were a lot cheaper than diesel mechanics and who could afford the downtime!
I'm still learning. When I as a feed manager for a cattle feedlot a few decades ago, they sent me to oil school. I learned about API (American Petroleum Institute) and SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) and pour rates and viscosity and sulfur content and all that. Each year I learn a little more about oil and filters.
Manufactures are coming around. Ford was probably the pickiest with synthetics. The Ford Power Stroke diesel by Navistar, uses engine oil pressure to activate the diesel injectors. But you can use a long lasting high quality synthetic. You will see more recommendations of synthetics by manufactures. Now Ford recommends only synthetic oil in their new 4.6L all aluminum V-8 in the 2002 Explorer and even in a Ford Focus car, the recommended oil for a transaxle is synthetic oil.
I run into this dilemma all the time about aftermarket add-ons and maintenance schedules and warrantees. There are laws to protect your rights to be active in deciding what's best for your truck. The burden of proof is with the dealers and manufactures and it has to be in writing. We can help you not be abused by dealer tactics. Amsoil stands by their warranty.
You are the one who pays for maintenance. With the right oil, and the right filters, you're on your way to getting the best value and lowest cost per mile. You will be able to service your vehicles less often, saving time and money. On my farm and ranch, trucks had to pay for themselves. I wish I had Amsoil then. Of course I'd still be driving some of my pickups from the "seventies!"
GM Duramax Owners help is on the way!
Protect your investment.
On my farm I had Chevy 454 cu and 366 cu. engines. The 366 was in a medium duty 2 ton truck, (C65.). The 454 cu engine was in a 1 ton truck, (C30.) These engines were very similar. The 366 cu used a heavy-duty 2-quart oil filter. The 454 cu called for a 1-quart filter. The 366 cu seemed to last longer and have less down time. Since the engines are practically the same I started using the same oil filters on both of them. This at least gave me one more quart of oil for the 454 cu engine to help cool it down, filter more and dilute the dirt in the oil. One problem with GM, they never have the oil capacity. The same size engine as Ford usually holds a quart less oil. I like more oil. There is a reason semi-trucks hold over 20 quarts of oil. I'm thinking the same thing now for the GM Duramax diesel. The 5.9L Cummins in the Dodge holds 12 quarts, the 7.3L Power Stroke in the Ford holds 15 quarts and the GM Duramax once again only holds 10 quarts. I've looked up under the Duramax and there is plenty of room for a longer filter. Dodge and Ford already have a 2-quart filter.
Amsoil has a way to increase your Duramax's oil capacity and your other trucks. It's a kit that screws into your present oil filter base and flows thru two filters, one a full flow filter, the other a bypass filter. This will give you an extra two quarts of extra engine oil to cool and lubricate. The bypass filter will remove particles down to 1/10th of a micron (nearly 100% of particles down to 3 microns). The majority of full flow filters on the market are still based upon a cellolose media which will be efficient down to about 25 microns at best, most are more like 30 to 40 microns.
Some oil filters such as the AMSOIL SDF, Mobil 1 High Efficiency and AC Delco UltraGuard Gold use a glass, synthetic fiber and cellolose blend media which offers high efficiency filtration which will remove the majority of particulate matter down to about 10 to 15 microns.
Protect your investment, increase you oil capacity two quarts with the best filters you can buy. Check out the following description and pictures of the oil filter conversion. The conversion part # is BMK-17, the full flow filter is SDF26, and the bypass filter is BE-100. Stay tuned for more products to protect your Duramax!
Pulling trailers stresses your truck. I know I've stressed the heck out of a lot of them. Install the Amsoil bypass system filter kit and add years to your trucks engine. Double your oil filter capacity and dramatically increase the filtering efficiency and increase your trucks engine life. And you don't have to do those messy oil changes as often.
Bypass Oil Filter Mounting Kits
Engine wear is caused by dirt particles larger than 5 microns. The AMSOIL By-Pass Oil Filter removes particles as small as 1/10 of a micron, virtually eliminating engine wear. AMSOIL By-Pass Oil Filters filter all the oil in a six-quart system in about five minutes at an average engine speed equivalent to 45 mph
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The AMSOIL By-Pass Oil Filter provides the best possible filtration protection against wear, oil degradation, rust and corrosion. Working in conjunction with the engine’s full-flow oil filter, the AMSOIL By-Pass Filter operates by filtering oil on a "partial-flow" basis. It draws approximately ten percent of the oil at any one time and traps the extremely small, wear-causing contaminants and water that full-flow filters can’t remove. The AMSOIL By-Pass Filter typically filters all the oil in the system several times an hour, so the engine continuously receives analytically clean oil.
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