Wow. It is interesting to hear all the varying comments and strong misconceptions. 1. Every oil starts as a base oil. This means, it all started with the same initial product. The additive package that an oil manufacturer develops is what makes the difference. 2. An oil can only run as long as it's additive package is good for. After you run out of antiwear or depending on an oil's TBN, you are done.
3. Filters are a necessary part of this combination. Newer sythetic filters have more consistent fiber placements than Fram/Wix/Baldwin with their cellulose medias.
4. The best filters on the market are the Fleetguard Stratapore filters. Also note that Fleetguard (now known as Cummins Filtration) is the only filter company owned by an engine manufacturer.
5. Cummins Filtration/Fleetguard is the OEM supplier to Case IH, New Holland and John Deere.
You can check my info.
1. True but there are different base stocks.... some better some worse. Some synthetic some mineral
2. I agree 100% on this one, I know Amsoil has a starting TBN of about 12!
3. Again I agree with ya!
4. I can't say that the Fleetguard are the best, I do know that in light duty applications Amsoil makes filters to go along with their drain intervals, upto 25k miles! I beleive Donaldson makes the filters for them. I do know Donaldson had to figure out a way to cure some serious oil contamination problems on the Humvee's that were out in the harsh deserts, the fine silica in the air was causing all sorts of problems. So I am gonna assume Donaldson makes a filter as good or better than Fleetguard.
5. True again going off my memory
I would highly suggest Amsoil and going 35k/17.5k highway/city miles before changing the oil. At the very least go with Mobil 1, they now offer extended drain intervals. I then advise oil analysis to determine the amount of life left in the oil and base future changes off that!
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