Nissan Paqtrol 4.2l Turbo Diesel Motor oil question

use genuine oil air and fuel filters.. they are better.
oil, use Shell Rimula x.. did my mates TD42 well for 590,000klms (change oil and filters 5000klm intervals)

first oilchange is the missing word.........wonder what happen to it..... hmmm :-)

Reiner

I use 15W40 Mobil Delvac in the 4.2 at present.

I use genuine Nissan Fuel filter and Ryco Oil Filters and Air Filter

Seems to work OK

Getting a bit slack with the 5000km changes but 6,500 to 7.500 is OK I think

Cheers

Hi,

I use Nissan filters as they are about the same price from memory.

As for oil, on another forum a year or so ago there was a lot of talk about oil - our old style 4.2s get very hot, and some types of lubricants are better at handling the heat than others. Oil that has a high calcium lubricant content is best (>3000ppm)

Castrol JMax 15w40 meets the above specs (the J stands for Japanesse), although castrol have renamed it from Jmax, but its the same gear.

The other view is that any oil is good as long as you change it often - I always stick to the 5000 change, even though that sometimes means changing oil once a month when getting about lots.

there is a yahoo forum for patrols that is very good if you want to know more about your utehttp://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Patrol4WD/messages

trolute

The handbook says that?
All the hanbooks i have seen give a chart showing what viscosity to use depending on operating temps

I had my TD42 serviced for 20k last week at Nissan and the invoice says oil used is DURA BLEND 1OW/40. $85.80

I think that quoted oil rating is for very cold winter conditions. Your handbook gives a range of ratings for different conditions.
I use 15W-40 Caltex Delo CXJ (J for Japanese engines). It's a medium-ash oil specifically made for Japanese-design engines.
Gerry

I use Castrol Tection (old name J-Max) 15W-40.
As for oil/fuel/air filters I use either genuine or Ryco (depending on where the best saving are!! ;-) ) and except for one instance some time back with genuine oil filters when it took ~ 6 secs to reach oil pressure after startup have had no probs with either.

Himble