Synthetic oil changes
I just read a post from last October about someone asking if they could use synthetic oil in the generator. He received 3 pages of yes and no's and the general opinion is yes you can use synthetic oil...
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Sam Spade wrote:
The important point is that your diesel engine contains about 6 times the amount of oil in a gas car or truck engine. Just that alone would make you think it could go 6X as long between changes. Add to that the fact that diesel fuel is closer to the viscosity of lubricating oil than gasoline is (so that less dilution occurs) and you are up near 100,000 miles.
Car/truck makers also say that you can go 100K on a set of plugs.
For the cost of a set of plugs or 7 gallons of oil, I won't be doing either.
You seem to be misinformed.
My Ford truck takes 4-5 gallons of oil.
Don't try to ran container ship on the amount of oil you put in Toyota.
I just replaced set of plugs on wife wagon who at 160,000 miles seem to be factory plugs BTW.
Passed CA smog on them 2 months earlier.
Coming back to oil changes, in USA they are dictated by lawyers, or oil company salesman.
In Europe cars have been run for 40,000 km between oil changes about 20 years ago, when in USA the "Oil change 3000" was making huge profits.
