Diesel oils-an interesting topic/selection!

Submitted: Tuesday, Jun 01, 2004 at 21:21
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Was just reading a couple of posts about what diesel oil is good for what age engine etc (ie CF, CG, CH, CI). Have heard that it is better to run a previous rating in older diesels, but having just gone to the Caltex website for a quick sticky, they of course say to run Delo 400 (CI-4) in everything from a 1980 model SD22 (Datsun 720) to current!! Seems they are keen to flog this stuff!

Just out of interest, I decided to run Delo 400 (just my own decision) in my intercooled TD42 GQ (80,000k's) about 35,000k's ago with changes @ every 5000k's. I had no knowledge of the possibility of increased oil consumption of a CI-4 oil in my '97 GQ so I guess it's a lucky thing that it hasn't used a drop. It does need the tappets doing now but I think it's noisy cause of the 50,000k interval not the oil? If anyone has a TD42 running CI-4 oil that's had a disaster, I would love to know-so I can switch...

Muzza
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