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Who here runs Shell Rotella 15w40 in their 3rd gen diesel?

Old Mar 6, 2008 | 06:30 AM
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Shell Rotella 15w40 I thought about Amsoil but I havent hit the lottery yet
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Old Mar 9, 2008 | 07:54 AM
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Well here's my 2 cents worth!! I have 337000+ miles on my 3500 SRW 4x4 CTD . I put about 10,000 on a month pulling RV's for a living. So I change oil at 10,000 intervals. Rotella Syn. 5w40 with NAPA Gold filters. Oil & Fuel at them intervals. I also use Lucas add. in every thing. Still running STRONG!!! There are some powerstrockers & dogamax's that can tell ya that!!
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Old Mar 17, 2008 | 08:38 PM
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i usually run delo 15w40 ci-4+ in my 06. however it is getting hard to find so i am switching over to rotella ( i already run rotella 15w40 in my lawnmower, my 2 toyota trucks and my 2 dirt bikes w/o a problem)
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Old Mar 17, 2008 | 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Gray Ram
Well here's my 2 cents worth!! I have 337000+ miles on my 3500 SRW 4x4 CTD . I put about 10,000 on a month pulling RV's for a living. So I change oil at 10,000 intervals. Rotella Syn. 5w40 with NAPA Gold filters. Oil & Fuel at them intervals. I also use Lucas add. in every thing. Still running STRONG!!! There are some powerstrockers & dogamax's that can tell ya that!!
Good testament. Thanks for sharing. Not too many people here log those kind of miles.
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Old Mar 17, 2008 | 10:03 PM
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I have always used Rotella 15w-40 and changed last year to Rotella 5w-40 synthetic and can't believe the difference.
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Old Mar 18, 2008 | 08:15 AM
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I always used the rotella 15w-40 until it changed to the CJ. So now I use Valvoline Premium Blue CI Plus. If you look at the TDR results. Rotella synthetic is high on list, regular Rotella 15w-40 is one of the worst.
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Old Mar 18, 2008 | 08:22 AM
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I switched to Rottela Syn this month after reading the TDR results. However 82,000 miles and running strong
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Old Mar 18, 2008 | 10:56 AM
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In my area several farmers last year stopped using Rotella in everything they own as the new CJ-4 oil is not holding up as well as the old CI-4+ oil did.
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