TimberCutterDartmoor

Good point about bore glazing; ice cream vans idling all day every day were the classic victim. How do you measure fuel dilution? UOA or a really sophisticated method like watching the spread of droplet on tissue (as I do for the forwarder!)?

Here's a good read for you! Motor Oils - Fuel Economy vs. Wear

I think wealth trickles down because I've experienced it trickle down to me! Not great wealth but a little something because someone better off than I helped me out. I know that capitalism suggests otherwise. Someone with money giving to charity is the simplest example to the contrary I can think of. I burst a pressure valve at the "F'ing coffee" comment. Look I'll never be a socialist left wing type that's it.

Do you cut the labels out of your underpants?

Think you need to re-read what I said I didn't say wealth trickles down. Although I do think it does!

IN YOUR OPINION! Expression with 3 F's in it comes to mind. Never said it was wealth that trickled down did I! Chicken head.

I'm a top-down voter rather than bottom-up; I see the EU as a far bigger and more serious issue than the NHS because IMO it affects all the small UK issues people are apparently upset about - the NHS, economy, immigration and then the other local issues. Merely basing a vote on your personal matters and concerns does little to influence the ultimate trickle down effect.

In a word, Thank You.

Yeah man

That is the problem Sir! Certain groups are successful in intimidating the UK public so successfully with fragrant disrepect of our cultures and traditions...

Another thing; plan your OCI before a long run. Getting new oil to working temperature and holding it there creates thermal stability in the basestock, irrespective of type.

had the 530 years ago and detested the angled hopper too!

:thumbup1: Lefties are ok with picture 1&2 Righties are ok with picture 3 I like picture 4&5

TP 160 tracked

I should have mentioned re the d4d; there is no high pressure fuel escape when removing the injector pipes from the common rail or when removing the same lines from the injector unions. Don't remove the central pipe from the pump tho (that sits between 1&2 and 3&4).

Not worried about the derail - it isn't really; lube is a matter in the original matter. It's so expensive because it is made only from Poly-ol-ester basestock and this is the most expensive to produce of any oil basestock. Basestocks are grouped upto group 5 the highest performance attainable. 1 & 2 mineral and lightly cracked. 3 is hydrocracked but called full synth 4 is PAO - a considerable upgrade from grp 3. 5 includes all others inc esters. RL uses POE the highest and most expensive of the esters. That price was ball-park from Opie Oils; Old Hall Performance are the UK importer. Postage would be foc at that order price!!! AMSoil is PAO but not much cheaper than RL so you fall back to 2 & 3 group oils at realistic prices. Motul is another good ester product but for 15W40 heavy duty nowt touches RL. Have a read of this! http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.turbodieselregister.com%2FTDR57_Oil.pdf&ei=J4QxVePyL5LvaPahgKgE&usg=AFQjCNEuG1MFG_v65JpycOIde5-m4hJcsw&bvm=bv.91071109,d.d2s

Warning! It aint cheap! I wanted to put the requisite 19.5 litres in the harvester engine but can you imagine the price!!! Would work out at about £300!!! Completely out of the question at that price regardless of how good it is! I went for JD PLUS 50 II which is £60 ish for 20 litres... Anyway if you really want to go down the RL route it would be this: Red Line Synthetic Oil - Motor Oil - 15W40 Diesel Motor Oil

Update; as expected caught it just in time; oil strainer with some positive sludge carbon deposits - now cleaned. Oil pan given a bit of a scrub. Flushed for 10 mins, followed by sacrificial oil run for 5 miles followed by final fill of 5W40 PAO synthetic... Sounds quite different!

2007 in this case but also done the exact same job on an 2002 avensis 2.0 d4d. Once you go to the silver seals, the problem should be solved for good.

Sometimes it's a curse lol. Yeah, these low saps oils - so as not to poison the catalyst; you can't win. Initially the removal of traditional minerals i.e Phosphorous led to problems with valve train durability, particularly engines with sliding cam followers; other additives are used to aleviate the problem but I doubt with such success; it's like 4 star TEL and valve seats all over again! As you know, I'm a serious fan of RL oils; if you compare their traditional 15W40 specific DEO to the 5W40 there's not a lot in it in data terms (cSt, HTHS etc); however the detergent package (TBN) and higher mineral package of the 15/40 is why RL don't always promote this option for light passenger cars whereas the 5/40 has been pushed thru the likes of VW 50# specs and all the rest of it and has a reduced add pack. All the while, the POE basestock in RL is a major insurance policy irrespective of the particular add pack pros and cons; there are no other group 5 oils that can reassure me in the same way. You can email RL and dave will get back to you with specific guidance to your application. You are right; the latest CH-4+ oils (CI and CJ) are often low saps lacking the guts to do the job; there is a good article on the TurboDieselRegister. In our own tests, cannot yet find a lube that exceeds RL for maintaining MOFT in bearings (load carrying capacity - film strength), resisting HT oxidation and shearing. Unbelievable stuff, the holy grail for sure. Mindful that Toyota had a bit of a rep for sludging, I'd be bunging some RL 15W40 in there.

Mitsubishi ASX commercial.

Second that.

It's utter crap. Not absorbing, but holding in suspension of combustion by-products. Think of an F1 car; Shell Helix packaging - "approved by Ferrari"... or lubed by a small quiet specialist with no interest in marketing hype or OEM approval blah blah blah... My own oil analysis over the past 2 decades has proven afaiac that thinner oils do NOT improve mpg.