Truckster and exploder

Thanks mate.

goodday gents
the (amo)sae 10w-40 3.7l $57+ gst
(xlo)10w-40 doesnt import and doesnt recommend as its not a full synthetic
what he recommends for diesel is synthetic 15w-40$143per 9.5 ls

engine flush $12.10 inc gst
he said with roachies set up with the by pass filter sytem he should be looking at somewhere around 50-60000 ks between oil changes without the bypass system and using "there " oil filter about 30000 between changes but change filter every 10
also had a 2micron fuel filter and some other fuel additives he reckoned worked about 14-15 bucks a container but as far as i could work out you only got about 4 tanks to a bottlebut it may be worth a go
both he and the woman at the shop seemed fairly knowledgble about the products and easy to talk to

steve

ps i have a catalogue if you need more i will try and look it up

Hi all,
Not knocking the synthetic oil but just wondering why we are looking at switching to it. Yep it is good stuff.
The oil of any sort will never break down and it is only the additives that deplete from the contaminants that our engines produce, water, acid, soot etc.
If you can control or remove these contaminants then in theory the oil should never be changed but this is not really practical. The oil at some stage need to be replaced mainly due to the antiwear packages that are in them, if they are doing there job you will see them fall during an oil analysis and can make a judgment call when the oil should be replaced based on an reference sample, not forgetting the other information, particles, chrome etc
At present my 01 Patrol is running DELO 400 with a FTA bypass oil filter mounted across the front chassis and I got 23,000kms out of that oil before the soot level started to climb, I decided to change the oil, OEM and by pass filters only to discover that I had not installed the bypass filter correctly. It was allowing a small amount of oil to escape where the two filters mate. If I had installed the bypass correctly I would still be using the same oil now. I sample every 5000 and replace all the oil filters every 10,000 regardless of the sample results.

Not sure if any of this will help others my a decision?

The Boy