Thread: What Oil

Originally Posted by rick130

IMO if you are only doing 5-10,000km oil change intervals, why would you use a full syn oil unless you are absolutely caning your engine ?

You certainly know your stuff, and your advice is well received . Reading your info on oils I find very interesting, and informative, thank you. However, I am completely under the spell of my disco, it's like having a beautiful woman , do you dress her in silk, or sackcloth? I would like to see 500,000 kms on the clock before I'm in Eventide, just a personal thing, Bob

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

Thanks Rick. You have been more than helpful. So to put it simply I should give this oil a miss due to the GF-4, yes?

Dave, it has to be a typo, but what else is, err, lacking on that PDS ??

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

I have not got a hope in hell of doing a search that complex. I am an old fart that does not even understand half of the above, let alone try to remember it.

It's not that tricky. Add "site:" to the website you want to restrict the search to.

site:aulro.com will return results the forum aulro site. If you look at the address bar of your browser when you are in a sub forum you'll see the link is aulro.com/afvb/discovery-2 or whatever. I just cut and paste the link as required to limit the search to the sub-forum I'm interested in.

Robbo, I'm doing HPR Diesel 5 (5w/40) at 10,000 along with both filters .... Regardless of duty or time. It's still not black at that oil drain interval. I usually do an engine oil flush just prior to dropping the oil ... The first two times I did that the amount of crud that came out was woeful! ....

These engines are rated to go 20k between oil changes, or 10k for severe duty .... Changing the oil (if using good quality oil) at less than 10k is just wasting money. In a lot of cases 15k is quite OK.

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I might just add too .... I buy my HPR Diesel 5 from SuperCheap when it's on special, and normaly pay around $68-72 for 10L. I have checked the item on the web site to email me when on special .... I buy when it's cheap, not when I need it now.

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Originally Posted by Fluids

Robbo, I'm doing HPR Diesel 5 (5w/40) at 10,000 along with both filters .... Regardless of duty or time. It's still not black at that oil drain interval. I usually do an engine oil flush just prior to dropping the oil ... The first two times I did that the amount of crud that came out was woeful! ....

These engines are rated to go 20k between oil changes, or 10k for severe duty .... Changing the oil (if using good quality oil) at less than 10k is just wasting money. In a lot of cases 15k is quite OK.

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same here and no issues i can see, two filters and semi hi tec engine it would be silly to change at earlier intervals.

Originally Posted by Yorkie

same here and no issues i can see, two filters and semi hi tec engine it would be silly to change at earlier intervals.

I'm another in the HPR Diesel 5 and 10K km interval camp.

LR are pretty specific about what constitutes arduous duty, and unless you are spending more that 50% of your running time idling or traveling at under 15kph the 10K Km/6 months oil changes should be more than adequate.
Arduous.pdf

Magnatec 15W-40W diesel formulation from Supercheap ... excellent for flat tappet engines.
cheers