FishOnOne wrote:rhagfo wrote:FishOnOne wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
I did not make comments on my analysis on purpose. I wanted to see what others thought of the sample. My oil is AMZ/OIL 15-40 100 percent synthetic. I used the Fleetguard Stratapore filter. I think I was at least 8 mo on the oil. The oil is 10.4 TBN in the bottle.
I think I may just have a 15k personal service policy. Oil & filter, Air and fuel filters at every 15K. That's easy to remember.
Viscosity increased which could be the oil is starting to oxidize and the TAN number has probably went up as well. Copper is really high but I'm guessing that maybe coming from the oil cooler. Iron is still high even after a short drain interval from the factory oil. These are the attributes I would review and consider for my next OCI.
:h
Fish, not sure how you determined that Cummins's Viscosity increased? He only posted a single sample without any previous samples. It is my multiple samples on my second report that has a history of several changes. I currently change at 10K which works out to about 12 months.
Look at the amzoil product data sheet for viscosity. Also you don't need multiple analysis to form a trend to review viscosity like u would wear metals.
rhagfo wrote:FishOnOne wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
I did not make comments on my analysis on purpose. I wanted to see what others thought of the sample. My oil is AMZ/OIL 15-40 100 percent synthetic. I used the Fleetguard Stratapore filter. I think I was at least 8 mo on the oil. The oil is 10.4 TBN in the bottle.
I think I may just have a 15k personal service policy. Oil & filter, Air and fuel filters at every 15K. That's easy to remember.
Viscosity increased which could be the oil is starting to oxidize and the TAN number has probably went up as well. Copper is really high but I'm guessing that maybe coming from the oil cooler. Iron is still high even after a short drain interval from the factory oil. These are the attributes I would review and consider for my next OCI.
:h
Fish, not sure how you determined that Cummins's Viscosity increased? He only posted a single sample without any previous samples. It is my multiple samples on my second report that has a history of several changes. I currently change at 10K which works out to about 12 months.
FishOnOne wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
I did not make comments on my analysis on purpose. I wanted to see what others thought of the sample. My oil is AMZ/OIL 15-40 100 percent synthetic. I used the Fleetguard Stratapore filter. I think I was at least 8 mo on the oil. The oil is 10.4 TBN in the bottle.
I think I may just have a 15k personal service policy. Oil & filter, Air and fuel filters at every 15K. That's easy to remember.
Viscosity increased which could be the oil is starting to oxidize and the TAN number has probably went up as well. Copper is really high but I'm guessing that maybe coming from the oil cooler. Iron is still high even after a short drain interval from the factory oil. These are the attributes I would review and consider for my next OCI.
Cummins12V98 wrote:
I did not make comments on my analysis on purpose. I wanted to see what others thought of the sample. My oil is AMZ/OIL 15-40 100 percent synthetic. I used the Fleetguard Stratapore filter. I think I was at least 8 mo on the oil. The oil is 10.4 TBN in the bottle.
I think I may just have a 15k personal service policy. Oil & filter, Air and fuel filters at every 15K. That's easy to remember.
FishOnOne wrote:rhagfo wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
The wife and I drove from Elkhart, IN today to Fort Wayne, IN to Blackstone headquarters. Maggie was nice enough to give us the tour. And once back in the actual lab the guys were very nice about explaining what each machine did. It's actually smaller business with I would guess 12 or so employees in the building.
We were there this morning and received the report via email late this afternoon. I think I was put on the rush list as a courtesy.
Here is my sample. Second oil change first at around 2,900 miles and second around 15,200. Oil had 12,297 miles on it with no oil added between changes.
Wow, TBN at 5.7 sure looks like you go an easy 15K between changes!
Less than .5 percent fuel delusion, not bad for a emissions vehicle.
rhagfo
The question is not being able to go 15k miles on a OCI, but to extend FCA's 6 month max policy via oil analysis.
Cummins,
I'm surprised Blackstone didn't recommend in writing to go further on your next OCI. Wonder why?
rhagfo wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
The wife and I drove from Elkhart, IN today to Fort Wayne, IN to Blackstone headquarters. Maggie was nice enough to give us the tour. And once back in the actual lab the guys were very nice about explaining what each machine did. It's actually smaller business with I would guess 12 or so employees in the building.
We were there this morning and received the report via email late this afternoon. I think I was put on the rush list as a courtesy.
Here is my sample. Second oil change first at around 2,900 miles and second around 15,200. Oil had 12,297 miles on it with no oil added between changes.
Wow, TBN at 5.7 sure looks like you go an easy 15K between changes!
Less than .5 percent fuel delusion, not bad for a emissions vehicle.
Cummins12V98 wrote:
The wife and I drove from Elkhart, IN today to Fort Wayne, IN to Blackstone headquarters. Maggie was nice enough to give us the tour. And once back in the actual lab the guys were very nice about explaining what each machine did. It's actually smaller business with I would guess 12 or so employees in the building.
We were there this morning and received the report via email late this afternoon. I think I was put on the rush list as a courtesy.
Here is my sample. Second oil change first at around 2,900 miles and second around 15,200. Oil had 12,297 miles on it with no oil added between changes.
Cummins12V98 wrote:
"BTW... cummins will be by soon to tell you how bad the DELO brand was in his cummins. I just finished running a load of DELO 10W30 and I'm sure it was fine."
I did not say it was BAD, I told what the inside of my timing cover looked like after the first 55K of the engine was ran on Delo 15-40. It had black streaks, I did not say it was bad. I did tell how spotless my dad's engine was at about 125K using AMZ/OIL from 6K on.
Hey Fish did you notice my poll on the RV haulers and HotShotters???????
