Is Amsoil worth it

[Bosis21]

also i changed my engine oil 5000km ago with rotella 15w40, i normally use synthetic, but im from a really small town and they place in town was sold out of synthetic and i just had to get the regular blend, i notice my engine is really loud now over 2200rpm, like and old powerstroke loud, is this cause of the non syn blend im running for the first time, or is there something else i need to look into, or is the girl just starting to get broken in and this is expected? 37000kms on truck,

[Cayenne]

Amsoil: friend or foe?

best BRAND of oil for the lml

best oil for the lml

here you go i hit the search bar for you, and these are just my post before i found the search bar

[2500-HD]

Originally Posted by Cayenne

does anyone use the search bar anymore??????????????

in our lml with all emissions equipment there we use amsoil because we can get the 25,000 mile oil changes.

and you wonder why your truck is always broken

[WCSting]

L
o
L
!

[HD Dmax Machine]

Originally Posted by elkhornsun

I understand the desire to save a few pennies by deleting the emissions controls and adding more soot and pollution to the air. I could save $55 a month by loading my household trash in the back of my pickup and driving down the freeway and letting it blow out the back. At least my garbage would not be affecting the air that people have to breathe.

I know it is popular to do whatever is in a person's own selfish best interest, it has become the American way, but removing emissions controls is illegal, unethical, and just plain wrong any way you look at it. What has struck me over the years is how flexible people's morality becomes when money is involved which tells me that there is no morality in the first place, only hypocrisy.

[usafracer]

Nope not in my eyes.

[Cayenne]

Originally Posted by 2500-HD

and you wonder why your truck is always broken

hahaha bite me

[Cayenne]

Originally Posted by elkhornsun

If you put in lubricants that cost 2-3 times as much and simply extend the service interval, what have you really gained as compared to use any API/GM approved fluid? The great thing is that Amsoil, like STP before it, does not have to prove that there is any real benefit to be gained by spending the extra bucks.

If it was a good way to extend the life of the engine and transmission and differentials then I would expect all the fleet operators to be using these products but they do not.

I understand the desire to save a few pennies by deleting the emissions controls and adding more soot and pollution to the air. I could save $55 a month by loading my household trash in the back of my pickup and driving down the freeway and letting it blow out the back. At least my garbage would not be affecting the air that people have to breathe.

I know it is popular to do whatever is in a person's own selfish best interest, it has become the American way, but removing emissions controls is illegal, unethical, and just plain wrong any way you look at it. What has struck me over the years is how flexible people's morality becomes when money is involved which tells me that there is no morality in the first place, only hypocrisy.

well im glad we got an emissions lesson on a oil thread...thank you so much.

[Chevytuff19]

Originally Posted by Rich67

Wow, atleast you live in the right state for your mentality.I'm not a well educated man but I don't understand the purpose of emissions for clean air at the expense of less efficiency and depleting more of our natural resources.

Exactly! We could probably get 5 MPG more if the factory tuned our truck with no emissions equipment. Not only that, but we don't take into effect the increased emissions from factories having to produce DPFs, the plastic bottles the urea is sold in (and cardboard for the 2.5 gallon jug ), and the fact that the DPF will probably have to be replaced at least a couple of times over the life of a Duramax. Then, we have to take into account that we burn a lot more diesel while running with emissions intact (it wastes 1.5 gallons just doing a regen). And finally, the soot does not get burnt into a completely harmless concoction when a regen occurs...it just ends up in our groundwater instead of the atmosphere, and the atmosphere has much better resiliency to pollution that water/soil.

[KensAuto]

But it's nonsense to use synthetic when you can waste 2-3 times the amount of natural resources using regular oil. Let's see....use synthetic, go possibly 25k on 10 qts., or change oil every 5-10k miles.....that's 25-50 quarts in the same distance. More oil being pumped out of the ground and at least twice the amount of waste product to dispose of. Man, if i was worried about the environment, I would run synthetic, but that's just me.....oh, did i mention oil filters?