oil change
First oil change on my 2014 Ford Triton V-10 on F53 chassis. The manual says "SAE 5W-20 or equivalent". Should I go synthetic or conventional?
Forum Discussion
WILDEBILL308 wrote:
Well there agene you are wrong Sully. Bearings wearer with use that is why you have to rebuild engines. When they reach a point where they no longer control oil flow they need to be replaced. In the case I posted earlier you would need to replace the main bearings if the oil gap was 0.002. Let me try to explain this a different way for you. If you have a gap of 0.001 and a gap of 0.006 which one would 50 weight oil flow through faster? Now if you were concerned about getting oil through the smaller 0.001 gap wouldn't it make sense to use a 20 wt. oil?
Bill
Engines ( internal combustion ones) get rebuilt because the RINGS are shot....not the bearings. If the oil has been doing its job...the gap isnt going to get larger than its initial wear-in dimenstion
