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Re: Kirkland Diesel Engine Oil

Reply #25 –
You could say it is a slippery slope. 
Jan & Richard Witt
1999 U-320  36ft WTFE
Build Number: 5478 Motorcade: 16599
2011 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited w/Air Force One
Jan: NO5U, Richard:KA5RIW
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Re: Kirkland Diesel Engine Oil

Reply #26 –
Ford vs Chevy.
Richard & Betty Bark & Keiko our Golden Doodle
2003 U320T 3820 PBDS
Build # 6215
MC # 16926
2016 Chevrolet Colorado 4X4 diesel

Re: Kirkland Diesel Engine Oil

Reply #27 –
The oil debate is like beating a dead horse! But I do have a story to tell. Years ago I was in a machine shop in Las Vegas getting some work done on a 454. The shop owner was a nice guy and asked me if I wanted to tour his shop. It looked very nice and I obliged. During the tour he started talking about how they were building some engines for John Force at the time and they were having some failures. He stated after exhaustive searching for the problems he called Castrol oil and they told him not to use their oil in John's engine's use only Mobil 1. Their problems went away. I took that to heart. Just a interesting story. Jim.   
Jim and Dona
2002 U295 36'
Lily, blue healer. Our fury person
Manx mid travel Ecotec turbo
2022 Bronco badlands Sasquatch
Trail 90 and 110cc

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Reply #28 –
Quote from: fourdayoff –
he called Castrol oil and they told him not to use their oil in John's engine's use only Mobil 1. Their problems went away

Since Mobile 1 oil has been brought up. I have a good friend that's job is to figure out why million+$$  motors fail.  He said that Mobile 1 was the only oil company that would stand behind their oil when they showed them that there was a problem with their oil and it was the cause of the engine failure.  Needless to say, after that, they only recommend Mobile 1 oil.

I looked up John Force Racing and none of their sponsors are a oil company besides VP Racing fuels.
2014 ih45  (4th Foretravel owned)
 1997 36' U295 Sold in 2020, owned for 19 years
  U240 36' Sold to insurance company after melting in garage fire
    33' Foretravel on Dodge Chassis  Sold very long time ago

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Reply #29 –
Hope this is not a repeat message: Costco has their oil on sale till next month.

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Reply #30 –
Would love to pick the friends brain,and find out more info,just think for a moment,if you have any oil that is causing engines to
fail it would be doing it to every engine it's in,many of these failures are improper use of the oil such as,using the wrong weight,going way past the change interval,only buying the minimum amount for your oil burning engine and then adding dino
oil then blaming the synthetic,another one to think on,any major oil maker where it is actually shown and proved that somehow
their oil caused a problem would have to stand behind it or go broke.
96 U270 BUILD 4810
85 380SL
Drummonds TN.

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Reply #31 –
I'd be real interested in seeing a break down of the additive packages on all these oils that we are talking about. Both Dino and Synthetic, that's where the rubber meets the road. How often are you guys that do the extended oil drain change the oil filter?
Bruce, Linda, and Macy
Zoey RIP 1/20/19
1999 U295 40' build #5400
2017 silver Jeep Wrangler, 1260 watts of solar on top
Moving around the country

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Reply #32 –
On the coach with the 8.3 I went 20k miles and that was with the bypass filter that went down to 1 micron and it also added
about 3 qts.On my cars I go once  a year on oil and filter but only put on a few thousand miles.
96 U270 BUILD 4810
85 380SL
Drummonds TN.
 

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Reply #33 –
Quote from: bbeane –
I'd be real interested in seeing a break down of the additive packages on all these oils that we are talking about. Both Dino and Synthetic, that's where the rubber meets the road. How often are you guys that do the extended oil drain change the oil filter?
Coach is once a year. Other vehicles never more than 5K. Oil is cheap especially if you have a 5 liter sump.

Pierce
Pierce and Gaylie Stewart
'93 U300/36 WTBI
Detroit 6V-92TA Jake
1140 watts on the roof
SBFD (ret)