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Oil for my Mopar
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sebring+
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Amsoil has best oil, filters and systems.
Bought an 86 mazda pick up new. 325k and 13 years later i had changed oil about 4 times. Just replace filter and bypass filter and top off. Truck ran better and got better mpg than new. Just got tired of driving it so i sold it.
Learned about it from my friend in the 70's. He used it in his motocross dirt bike.
100:1 mix cut his rebuilds in half and bike ran better.
My 66 mustang has it and when i put my SSP 400 together it will have it.
The company has many more products and i dont keep up with it. I just put in the extended drain life oil with the narrowest viscosity rate, like maybe just 20w and then replace the filters according to mileage and top off. Oil doesn't break down and filters are very good. CAN'T GO WRONG WITH IT. And since i dont drain and replace oil much it isn't too expensive.
Bought an 86 mazda pick up new. 325k and 13 years later i had changed oil about 4 times. Just replace filter and bypass filter and top off. Truck ran better and got better mpg than new. Just got tired of driving it so i sold it.
Learned about it from my friend in the 70's. He used it in his motocross dirt bike.
100:1 mix cut his rebuilds in half and bike ran better.
My 66 mustang has it and when i put my SSP 400 together it will have it.
The company has many more products and i dont keep up with it. I just put in the extended drain life oil with the narrowest viscosity rate, like maybe just 20w and then replace the filters according to mileage and top off. Oil doesn't break down and filters are very good. CAN'T GO WRONG WITH IT. And since i dont drain and replace oil much it isn't too expensive.
I don't recommend waiting 75K miles between oil changes no matter which oil is in the engine, especially a 45 year old carbureted one. You are going to get combustion by products in the oil no matter what, even with a highly advanced fuel injected engine. I change oil as often as possible, I buy filters in bulk as well as oil, and save where I can by not falling for the $12 a qt and $15 filter Bull ****.
I buy mobil 1 full synthetic for like $4 a qt and use their rebates when ever possible, I just did 8 of their rebates last time they were out, that knocks the price down to around $3 a qt when you buy the 5 qt buckets. That is what I use in the non flat tappet engines for the most part, so figure changing the oil myself with a $4 filter most of my cars cost around $25 a change. Flat tappets a bit more, but I only change them once a year due to hardly driving them, I am a firm beliver of changing oil before putting a car in storage, for a few I will change the oil and not start them back up if I know they are going for a while, Ill drag them over to their parking spot with the skidsteer...
Anyway, I try to save as much on pm's, I figure someday I will save enough to justify the cost of my lifts, because got knows I wont ever make up for the tools and boxes, lol...
sebring+
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325K, 4 oil changes, 86 Mazda pick up ran like a top got 29mpg in stop and go driving.
When i removed valve covers to adjust it was clean as a whistle!. Plugs always CLEAN.
Same with my 66 mustang. Mustang gets 22mpg on hiway at 65-70 mph. All original. Grandparents bought it new. 289 2 barrel auto. I have put about 70k on mustang in 10 years. Replaced oil and filter 3 times. No bypass filter on it though. I would but just dont drive it enough and dont have any spare time to install.
Just my experience with it. Everyone is afraid of it.(amsoil)
When i removed valve covers to adjust it was clean as a whistle!. Plugs always CLEAN.
Same with my 66 mustang. Mustang gets 22mpg on hiway at 65-70 mph. All original. Grandparents bought it new. 289 2 barrel auto. I have put about 70k on mustang in 10 years. Replaced oil and filter 3 times. No bypass filter on it though. I would but just dont drive it enough and dont have any spare time to install.
Just my experience with it. Everyone is afraid of it.(amsoil)
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Was that a diesel manual shift mazda? My father had one that got like 40mpg high way, I think it was an 84', not sure.. The gas ones were junk they had 2.6 mitsus in them, I seen a bunch of them smoking away back when you could drive cars that smoked on the street, now you will get pulled over and arrested, lol...
BUT, I wouldn't let people think you can go 75K miles on the same 4-5 qts of oil, lol... Ure the engine may not blow up, but Ill bet it would have lasted longer and ran better with clean oil in it...
I like nice things, thats why I spend $50K restoring a muscle car or $90K building a 32 vicky, so I don't mind changing the oil for $25, its kind of fun actually, I pull the car on the lift, have a tall funnel bucket (like a pro shop) with the pump in it, magenetic oil wrenches, I have a notebook for each car with the filter number and last time I serviced that vehicle, I fill it in, change the filter, check everything underneath out, and fill it up.. then move on to the next one. Kind of lime my zen time...
****, you can wear the same underwear all week long too, but who the **** wants to do that?
sebring+
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Nope! Not a diesel. Gasoline B2000. Clean as a whistle, ran like a champ!
29 mpg in stop-n-go traffic commuting. I never checked it on the hiway because i moved from Calif. To Hawaii the last 5 yrs I owned it and you can't do a lot of long distance driving on an Island. Hot and humid. The worst part of its 325K that I put on it. The Amsoil bypass filter cleans the oil
Like new and the 100% synthetic doesn't break down.
It is the ONLY oil I will use. Just replaced all the oil and filters in my moms new Honda.
Now no worries about her oil changes. I will just replace it for her about every 2 years
Or so.
I'm no idiot when it comes to engines. I was a Volvo Master tech for 10 years.
Like I said people are afraid of Amsoil. When I sold the Mazda truck the buyer couldn't believe how clean and good the engine ran. I talked to him about 2 years later and he said the truck was running great and had 340k on it.
I have lost touch with him now.
29 mpg in stop-n-go traffic commuting. I never checked it on the hiway because i moved from Calif. To Hawaii the last 5 yrs I owned it and you can't do a lot of long distance driving on an Island. Hot and humid. The worst part of its 325K that I put on it. The Amsoil bypass filter cleans the oil
Like new and the 100% synthetic doesn't break down.
It is the ONLY oil I will use. Just replaced all the oil and filters in my moms new Honda.
Now no worries about her oil changes. I will just replace it for her about every 2 years
Or so.
I'm no idiot when it comes to engines. I was a Volvo Master tech for 10 years.
Like I said people are afraid of Amsoil. When I sold the Mazda truck the buyer couldn't believe how clean and good the engine ran. I talked to him about 2 years later and he said the truck was running great and had 340k on it.
I have lost touch with him now.
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