Posted by Tom-NorthCenTX on December 08, 2011 at 09:31:42 from (75.199.39.111):
In Reply to: Truck using oil posted by Chris Jones on December 08, 2011 at 07:22:57:
Your warm-up knocking is piston slap, as someone said below. Change your engine oil and filter. Use Mobil One 5W30 or 10W30 as you prefer. This WILL STOP the poston slapping you are hearing, and stop its long term bad effects. Seen it work time after time. Try it and post back.
I sold my 1990 GMC S15 Jimmy with the 4.3 V6 to my neighbor, it had about 70k on at the time. About a month later he complained about knocking at warm up. I ask if he continued to use the Mobil One 5W30 as I had advised, he had not but had changed oil and filter, using a "big name" synthetic blend. He changed back to Mobil One and cured the knocking. Tom
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