John Deere Plus 50 oil
 

I have a John Deere dealer near my house and I was thinking about picking up some of this oil. I have heard many good things about it but none really specific to our trucks. Has anyone used this stuff? How did you like it? Anyone get an oil analysis done with it? Im NOT trying to start a oil war here. I know AMSOIL is great, Rotella is awesome and Premium Blue has the Cummins logo on it so it must be good stuff too. Im not trying to be a jerk its just sometimes these oil threads get a bit out of hand and way off track. So if you have had expierence with the JD-50 oil, let me know! Thanks in advance! [roll]

yup i run it. its jsut like the old rotella does not soot up nearly as fast. i run the fleet gaurd long life oil filters and go 6k between changes i burn 1/2 qt in 6k miles with this with the new formulation of either Dello or Rotella i was burning 1-1/2 qts between oil changes. nothing else has changed, motor might be a little quieter but i cant tell my hearing escaped me years ago. i doo know the oil is alot cleaner for alot longer with this stuff than the other i was running. sorry no oil analysis. 120k miles and for the stretch from 60k when the CJ4 hit the market until i started running the ci4 plus 50 i noticed my oil would soot up imeadiately within 500 miles of towing now the last 20k it takes nearly 3000 miles before visually the soot starts to appear and at 6k my oil is still fairly clean compared to the cj4. don't know if that tells you much but i tend to subscribe to the cleaner my oil looks the better it is on my engine

I have heard good things about it from other dodge/cummins guys but havent had the chance to use any yet. I know its still CI-4 rated so it will be good to try.

You could pm roperteacher if he is still on here. He has a UOA and IIRC its about as good a UOA as you could have. A lot of Dino oils have just as good UOA's as expensive synthetics, even real PAO synthetics, they of course, just can't go as many miles. If have not used it, but have done research and it is an excellent oil, IMO anyway. Besides, I am still waiting for evidence of catastrophic engine failure (due to the oil) with any brand of engine oil --cheapos included, that meet HDEO specs. Have not heard of one yet.

I run the JD oil as well!!!!!!

just make sure you get some of the new stock that says on the label CI-4+. my local store only had the qt bottles of the old stuff but had a fiver of the new...so far i like it should have oil analysis soon

I buy JD +50 by the 2.5gallon jug. Used it for two oil changes. Did a wonderful job especially for the price. Going to run Rotella synthetic this winter. I have not had one bad oil analysis ever. I have run Delo, Schaeffers, Mobil, Valvoline reg and synthetic, JD, and probably some that I missed. The Cummins is easy on oil unlike the Powerstrokes of the past.