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Nov 5, 2011 | 08:09 AM

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Is this the right oil? Something about oil foaming and killing the injectors.

Shell Rotella T Synthetic Diesel Motor Oil, 5W40

Product #28-7935-0

Nov 7, 2011 | 08:49 AM

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Is this the right oil? Something about oil foaming and killing the injectors.

Shell Rotella T Synthetic Diesel Motor Oil, 5W40

Product #28-7935-0

Yep, that's a good quality choice.

Shell Rotella T-6 5W-40
Shell Rotella® Products - Shell Rotella

Here are two others that have show excellent results in the 7.3L on Used Oil Analysis Reports.

Schaeffer's 5W-40 series 9000 synthetic diesel oil
Schaeffer Oil | Supreme 9000 Full Synthetic Heavy Duty Engine Oil

Chevron Delo 400 5W-40 Diesel oil
http://www.deloperformance.com/docs/...ell_041310.pdf

Nov 9, 2011 | 06:24 PM

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Straight P50(Arctic) diesel, with no additives other than some 2 stroke oil once in a while. I have not had a fuel issue ever

Nov 10, 2011 | 06:46 AM

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Shell Rotella T-6 5W-40
Shell Rotella® Products - Shell Rotella

They also have Mobil-1 5W-40 Synthetic for Turbo Diesel Trucks. I'm going to pick up a new filter from Ford and do it today.

I also added a bottle of Power Service Diesel Fuel Supplement. The stores here carry White, Grey and Red(Emergency) bottles. I've been using the White bottles because it says it prevents fuel gelling in cold weather.

Nov 10, 2011 | 12:31 PM

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They have shell rotella t5 synthetic 0w-40
for extreme temps

Nov 10, 2011 | 05:10 PM

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Since Esso and Mobil combined their lines this side of the border, my old XD3 0W40 has turned into Mobil Delvac 1 ESP 0W40... I run it year round in everything, it plain old kicks *** and those crazy people that have nothing better to do than post about oil in forums seem to love the stuff.

Nov 23, 2011 | 07:20 AM

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I put Shell Rotella 0w40 in last night. -3 celcius and 3 inches of snow on the truck, started right up.

Nov 23, 2011 | 11:05 AM

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I put Shell Rotella 0w40 in last night. -3 celcius and 3 inches of snow on the truck, started right up.

Did you notice any difference with that 0w40? Spin quicker and quiet?

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Nov 23, 2011 | 03:50 PM

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mechelement

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My '86 6.9L starts better than my PSD in cold weather. If I run fully synthetic oil in the PSD, it will start as well as the old IDI, but will puke fuel out of the fuel bowl. It doesn't matter what's in the IDI. The thing is a friggin' furnace. Lol.