ODD Cummins oil pressure

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(12-11-2016 )Jarhead79 Wrote:  Rotella is sad. Does about as much good as Lucas.

If you want to make those kinds of blind statements, there are forums that thrive on that, where droves of company drivers can say what they want to... "TTR", and its romper-roominess atmosphere comes to mind real fast.

I don't want this place to be another "romper-room" where people make blind comments without some assemblance of educational or qualifying merit behind it.

This is exactly why I have resorted to simply deleting some of your previous posts. I don't have anything against you, you seem to be a generally cool guy,.. but sometimes, you seem to get bored, then post some serious romper-room ch-19 crap that does not belong here, -- Just saying.


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I have no loyalty to any brand of oil, I simply follow what works for me. My Youtube engine re-build series shows the insides of my my own engine after 960k miles. -- It has run Rotella-T all its life with one gallon of gear oil at every oil change. Anyone can see what that oil did to my engine, and be their own judge, and I go out of my way to make no false claims in any of my videos, there is no benefit to it for anyone.

I chose Rotella because of 2 things. -- Of the top 3 most sold oils at the lube places, it has more zinc than delvac. I tried to go weith Delo, highest zinc,.. but it did not stay clean (bright colored like from the bottle) for as long as rotella does. rotella stays bright yellow for about 4,000 miles longer than Delo did in my engine every time i tried to use it. I also tried it again after my inframe here recently, and same result. Someone else may have a different story, not every truck and engine is the same.

-- Oil does not lie as it changes color, and tells you a lot as it does so, far beyond oil sampling does. Mine turns a bit darker yellow at 12-14k, then eventually brown-ish at about 15-18k miles,.. If i let it go more, it then starts to get a grey-ish under-tint to it much past about 20-22k miles. -- At that point, it definitely is no longer doing 100% of what it is supposed to do, so I don't let it get much past medium-to dark brown before changing it. If I let it go longer than 20-25k, it will turn black-ish(I did this a couple times, but rare), and I never want to see black oil in my engine -- ever.

My own oil after 8k miles ...



- I have seen drivers spent a lot of money on oil and oil products trying to get the most life from their engines. I used to do this too, until i did my own inframe,.. then I saw a clear picture that what I as doing was more than adequate as far as oil goes. The sad part, is a lot of those same fanatics about oil will let their EGR and other systems eat the engine alive from the inside out. Even better yet, I see them do bypass filters, synthetic, and extended oil changes, letting deposits build up in the cross-drillings, never giving it a second thought, then wondering why they have chewed through an overhead cam in only 400k miles.

I even harped on one guy about this about 3 or 4 times who was brainwashed to the whole extended, synthetic, sampling, bypass crap religiously, -- Now he is on his 3rd overhead cam in less than a million miles,.. and HE IS STILL CONVINCED IT IS AN ENGINE PROBLEM INSTEAD OF HIS SHEER IGNORANT PRACTICES!. -- Sad indeed,.. and I really thought as methodical as this guy was about keeping after it,.. he would prove me wrong for once. -- I clearly see where that went.