What type of oil?
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What type of oil?
I know im gonna get a million opinions. And I know there's a search bar. But for the sake of having a healthy prolonged engine life, what type of oil is best in your guys' opinion? Mine has 96,500 on the stock motor, (Bought it with 85k) and has had Mobil 1 5w-30 ran its whole life. Also do additives such as the Lucas Oil stabalizer actually work or is that just advertisement?
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Stick with the Mobil 1. Not only is is great stuff but that's what it's had all along.
I use Mobil 1 in all my vehicles and I go 10k between changes. Never had a problem and every time I went into and engine, even after 120k plus, wear was almost non-existant.
Oh yeah..forget the additives and just use the Mobil 1.
I use Mobil 1 in all my vehicles and I go 10k between changes. Never had a problem and every time I went into and engine, even after 120k plus, wear was almost non-existant.
Oh yeah..forget the additives and just use the Mobil 1.
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Most synhetics are very comparable. Find one on sale. Just got Pennzoil platinum full syn 2 for 1... works great.5-30..... don't use fram filters.
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I just put in a Castrol Magnatec 5/30 fully synth with a MAN filter. Seems to like it so far. There are much more expensive oils out there but I doubt there was anything as good as a basic full synth available when the 242 was designed!
You don't need oil additives, the oil makers do a lot of research to get their additives right and second guessing them with random snake oil isn't going to help.
You don't need oil additives, the oil makers do a lot of research to get their additives right and second guessing them with random snake oil isn't going to help.
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Use mobil 1 full synthetic as far as additives I use marvel mystery oil in my gas at every fill up and in my oil I bought my jeep at 10900 I have 240000 now oh and don't forget all your other fluids
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Both are too thick to lubricate properly at start-up and both have the same viscosity at operating temp.
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There is no real need for 10-30. By rights I should be running 5-20.5-20 will not be too thin until it gets up closer to 300 degrees. If you want to change viscosity summer to winter I would go 5-30 summer 5-20 winter. I'm going to be running 5-20 year round next change. My 5-30 holds good pressure when hot so there's no prob with it getting too thin. Be sure to use syn... well worth the XtrA $$ your engine will thank you.
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Originally Posted by Moncheche
Both are too thick to lubricate properly at start-up and both have the same viscosity at operating temp.
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