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I was told the other day by a diesel shop that Rotella T was the worst oil I could use in my '99 PS. This is not synthetic. He said the synthetic was okay to use. When I first got my truck I was told that Rotella T was the best to use because it did not foam and worked better on the injectors. The diesel shop said that Delo was better than Rotella T. I used Delo in my old 6.? but since Sam's carries Rotella T ...that became my reason for using it. Our Sam's does not carry the synthetic but I did see some at Walmart. Does anyone have any comments on Rotella T usage? Thanks. Texas C
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I just did my first oil change on my recently acquired 2002 7.3L (it now has 63k on it) and put in dino Rotella. I didn't see that Wally-World had the syn version until after I did my change. Next change will be syn Rotella. It's $17/g instead of $9/g. No brainer, IMHO.
Both of them meet the Ford Spec (according to the label, anyway) and tons of guys I know have run it for years. Sounds like your guy is blowing smoke to me.
Joe
Both of them meet the Ford Spec (according to the label, anyway) and tons of guys I know have run it for years. Sounds like your guy is blowing smoke to me.
Joe
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Originally Posted by Texas Charlie
I was told the other day by a diesel shop that Rotella T was the worst oil I could use in my '99 PS. This is not synthetic. He said the synthetic was okay to use. When I first got my truck I was told that Rotella T was the best to use because it did not foam and worked better on the injectors. The diesel shop said that Delo was better than Rotella T. I used Delo in my old 6.? but since Sam's carries Rotella T ...that became my reason for using it. Our Sam's does not carry the synthetic but I did see some at Walmart. Does anyone have any comments on Rotella T usage? Thanks. Texas C
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I run many diesel engines, farm and road. I use rotella T exclusiively. My mechanics say there is none better.
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I have run Rotella T from time to time when my Oil changer was out of Delo, and can say that I get a little more injector noise from the Rotella than the Delo. that being said I do NOT feel that I am running an inferior oil to the Delo, just different. I have a relative that works for Chevron down in the Gulf and that is one reason I have mostly run DELO.
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Originally Posted by KrenzyRyan
A couple of guys have been reading up on Amsoil here at work, they say that some Semis have gone over 1 million miles on the same oil, and the engine still ran fine.
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Originally Posted by KrenzyRyan
What I meant was, they never changed the oil for 1 million miles
