which oil??

Penrite is the best stuff mate. If you intend on doing the full oil change, use penzoil. When I picked up my truck the box was a little notchy etc. Penrite seems to have solved the problem. Mate of mine used cheaper stuff (castrol I think) and he was not happy at all.

You happy with the new truck?

Hi Phil,

My last 2 vehicles I have changed over to Synforce - Cruiser Oil manufactured in Hervey Bay.
It is a synthetic oil and you will find it advertised somewhere on this website.
I will not consider anything else now. I had them send me the spec sheets on the product and compared it with other synthetic oils and Cruiser Oil is great value for money. I think the 20 litre drum cost me $110.
At a practical level my GQ was starting to become very rattly in the top end. After running this oil for the first 5000km I thought it was getting quieter. By the 10000km change all top end noise had disappeared.
Something else interesting was that the engine idle speed increased the first time I put it in and I had back the idle off a bit. Common sense says "less friction" when this happens.

Good luck with your choice.

Brett
T/D 80 Series Landcruiser

Hi Phill, Penrite is the best by far I have used it for about 15yrs in 4 different vechiles and I would not use any thing else.
If you do decide to go with Penrite buy the 20ltr or 60ltr drums and you will end up saving dought as well.
I used to work in an engine reco shop so I saw first hand the effects of all the different oils and the effects of not doing oil changes on time.
All food for thought?
All the best Bushy.

Phil
Agip oil is packaged by Shell in Australia as far as I am aware, my story is that I have supervised the change-over of oil suppliers in two mines both with about 200 bits of equipment, and prior to every change over i.e. Mobil for 3 years then Caltex for 3 and now BP for 2 yrs, I would hear all the old wife’s tails about engines starting to use oil after the change and bearings failing etc. and to date have not had any engine or trans fails due to change of oil suppliers. We don’t flush or anything flash one day we will have Caltex as the supplier then the next day BP turns up with a tanker and dumps 21,000ltrs of Global C6 on top of about 10,000ltrs of Caltex Delo 400 and life goes on as normal.
The only time I have had lube problems is I’ve come across a neglected engine (years without an oil change) and tried to do the right thing and give it an oil change, the carbon has then been washed out after a couple of days and the engine has lost compression and requires rebuilding. So if your engine has had regular servicing i.e. every 10-20,000km you should not have any drama.
So my suggestion would be to find a local supplier BP, Caltex, Mobil, or Shell, a distributor with friendly helpful staff that has good stocks of all the oils and grease you need i.e. eng, trans and diffs., CV’s and uni.’s, look up the oil companies web site and go for the top of the range that is recommended for your vehicle, then when your on the road interstate or wherever there is a good chance you can pick up top up oils of the same grade etc at one of the big oil suppliers service stations, and you will know the range and price etc.
Stew