Originally Posted by
jsp
the guys at TRS told me to only ever use full syn in the td6, so I have. Every 8-10k it gets usually either penrite or nulon, with occasional Castrol when its on sale, what evers cheap!
I have been told by the supercheapauto guys to use the penrite diesel hpr stuff, but its a semi syn so I haven't.
I guess mines young at 330k.
Its currently got the you beaut landrover ATF in it.
I can tell you dx3 does kill the 5l40e auto in about 1500 k's with a load on the back, and you might get 4000-5000k's without pulling a load.
Until being informed by rick130 and some reading he instigated by that information , i had the same view about synthetic oil , mostly because i had never taken the trouble to try to understand anything much or question anything .
The next change in 4k will still be the Nulon Full Syn because i still have around 11 liters of it and the engine seems happy using it .
I`ll decide what to use when i see the right spec at the right price but i now see the base is not as important as i presumed .
Our 5L40e uses Penrite FS even though not the latest specification because of council here and information and explanation that Penrite gave as to why the FS was their recommendation , he provided graphs of how and where the two oils worked and differed , though the bloke i messaged with then was much more helpful than the last bloke but in fairness the second blokes question was not as straight forward .
PLR or peter r elsewhere
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