Monday, Mar 01, 2004 at 21:25
Jimny,
Nick drives an 89 GQ with a TD42 not a "Modern high speed turbo charged deisel engine of japanese or European decent"
540,000klms later he still uses Rimula X (tryin to find out where to buy 20ltr drums of it would be easier!) and now so do I...
Why not use oil better than recommended?
Oil and filters are CHEAP.. engine rebuilds are not, TD42 is about $6-8000 for a rebuild.. I know what I would prefer...
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Pathy...
I had a set of Coopers fitted to the GQ once when I was too lasy to do the oil change myself.. Started the car, and it was a good 8-12 seconds (hard to be 100% certain, but it was long enough to get my eyes to nearly fall out) before the pressure gauge moved... I bleep bricks...
Went back inside and asked what the story way, they told me Coopers have no drain back in them but are cheaper than Genuine, and since I didnt specify genuine etc, thats what they used (at least he was honest..) What happens is all the oil always MT's out of the filter each time when its sitting for hours.. This is how it was explained to me by the bloke...
I stopped at Nissan on way
home and got 2 genuine ones, and when I got
home, drained the oil, threw the Genuine ones on, and thew the Coopers away, filled the oil again and it was instantly cured. 2-4 secs if that to get pressure. Didnt save me any time at all! cost me in the end :(
The cost of genuine ones was about $1 more...
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