Caltex Technical Paper
Submitted: Monday, Apr 19, 2004 at 17:26
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Member - Meggs
I upgraded my oil from Delo 500 to Delo 400 and while I was there I picked up a technical paper on diesel engine soot. I am not pushing
Caltex or any other oil but if you are able to pick one up it gives a good explaination of one of diesel engine oils biggest enemy. After sorting through the
Caltex hype the explaination would apply to all oils.
Reply By: William - Monday, Apr 19, 2004 at 19:55
Monday, Apr 19, 2004 at 19:55
Surprising you are such a smart person. Not a trait often displayed here. Normally the whaaackers want to buy stuff with names like Cruiser oil. I would not use Cruiser oil in my lawn mower let alone my vehicle.
You should be pushing
Caltex Delo 400 as it is one incredible product and doing people a favour telling them about it. There is no other mineral oil for diesels that is as good as Delo 400
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Follow Up By: Paul's lot - Monday, Apr 19, 2004 at 20:39
Monday, Apr 19, 2004 at 20:39
Caltex CXJ was excellent for me. found it better than 400 the cxj designed specifically for high revving turbo's. was more expensive though but what price do you put on your motor. Only danger was that for a lot of people it would be over servicing, like feeding strawberries to pigs. It's all about knowing your parameters and requirements
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Follow Up By: Glenno - Monday, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:40
Monday, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:40
Amen Brother.
Your looking at a Biiiiiggggig fan of Delo 400 here.
Dont want to knock the little guys, but if Hiclone's, Cruiser oil's etc were *that* good, they would be standard issue in every new 4by.
I also think that
Caltex publically publishing testing results of their oil's says pages in my books.
Cheers,
Glenno.
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Reply By: Member - Pesty (SA) - Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004 at 00:09
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004 at 00:09
Hi meggs
What sort of steed do you have as no need to go from 500 to 400 if running older deisels. I run delo silver (500 has been changed to silver) in all my vehicles and is recomended for older diesels , I put it into my 2h deisel, hilux 2.4 deisel, 2f cruiser petrol, 2 falcons and a v8 commodore and works
well in all. It is also resonably priced at $65 for 20 ltrs.
The cruiser travels the most ks at 1000 to 1200 a week and as I clock the
miles fast I change filter and oil at 10,000 k intervals and it is not heavily comtaminated .
Best results I have ever had from engine oil.
Cheers Steve
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Follow Up By: Member - Meggs - Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004 at 00:39
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004 at 00:39
Steve I have a 3l Hilux naturally aspirated dual cab. I will be doing some fairly heavy towing 1200kg and with Delo 500 the recommended oil change is 2500k I believe this is proberbly conservative. I am going up to a CI-4 oil and I am going to take the oil drain interval out by 25% mainly because it costs 25% more and then I will pay to get and oil analysis and see the results. If I can't reduce the oil changes there is no point in going to a more expensive oil. The degrading of diesel oils is primarily by soot. The technical paper gives a good explaination of the soot, how it is produced and what happens to it in the oil. I thought my hilux was a dirty engine but it seems as if the latest diesels are much worse due to the attempt to clean up the exhaust emissions. I don't care weather others use Cruisel oil,
Caltex oil or Fish
shop oil it is just the paper that is worth a read.
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