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Yeah old chevy 350 does like **** thin oil, no old engine does.
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I miss the SBC 350 days....
WhatThey will all work in the HEMI... The problem is the four-banger-sized oil filter. Granted, a thick 5w-30 / thin 0W-40 makes the HEMI run and sound better.
You seem to diss the smaller sized filters, what am I missing? I use top of the line oil PUP and Redline and run the smaller RP filter for 5000 miles.Nothing ticks like a HEMI 345
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You seem to diss the smaller sized filters, what am I missing? I use top of the line oil PUP and Redline and run the smaller RP filter for 5000 miles.
Thanks, I will go to the larger filter next oil change. Didn't know the smaller filter hindered the top end with oil.The small filter is only used on the trucks, not the SRT vehicles. Their excuse is that the big filter won't fit on the trucks due to the electronic power steering, which is BS. The small filter can starve the top portion of the engine of oil, which has poor lubrication to begin with. But hey, two things:
1) It's your motor, so you do what you want with it.
2) Cool if it works for you.
PUP is not top of the line oil, not even close. It doesn't even come close to Red Line Oil. The entire PUP lineup, including SRT 0W-40, are fuel economy oils. Look at their density, all of them are 0.841 g/cm3. Red Line 5W-30 is 0.875 g/cm3. AMSOIL SS oils are also above 0.850 g/cm3. Schaeffer's is another good example that's expensive to make. Synthetics that are that dense are expensive to manufacture. PUP is just a step bellow Mobil 1, which isn't saying much. I'll probably switch the HEMI to Red Line Oil next oil change. I kept putting it off because I still have plenty of M1 FS 0W-40, and I'm cheap. But Red Line Oil is good stuff, PUP is just meh.
I would say PUP is a step above Mobil 1, ever since the Exxon buyout and Castrol lawsuit.
But agree that Amsoil and RedLine are in the top class of performance oils. The main point is if one needs to reduce OCI for whatever reason, these oils are wasted money unless there is some specific engine design parameter they are needed for, our HEMI's being a prime example - a poorly-lubricated valvetrain needing supplemental additives to survive. Race application is another.
Thanks, I will go to the larger filter next oil change. I didn't know the smaller filter hindered the top end with oil.
That is what I thought prior to ram forum, I had never used redline before this, or anything except m1. However, ram forum had ticks on every oil you can think of and those ticks disappeared with redline. Not 1 truck, not ten trucks, closer to 100 trucks over 10 years. So my opinion has changed, there is no duplicating this work, 100 random forum guys, case is closed. 80% success rate from an oil change and fixing ticking engines, and to my knowledge non of those had a cam fail as of yet knock wood. The couple guys like Kap who had a fail with redline and a fail and codes before changing the oil. I think there was one other in the same camp. Now, what are the chances that 100 ticking hemi's and none had cam fail? Add that to long term falling wear numbers. This is welcome info for anyone with a hemi, unless they live at boobs the site of "unbiased" oil info, lol.
Same with some facebook ram groups im in. Atleast 3 posts a week about lifter tick. Ive told every one of those guys to try redline before doing cam and lifters and every single one except for one guy told me "oil cant fix part failure" which dont get me wrong is true if its to far gone. The one guy that tried it? His tick is gone.This is welcome info for anyone with a hemi, unless they live at boobs the site of "unbiased" oil info, lol.
Same with some facebook ram groups im in. Atleast 3 posts a week about lifter tick. Ive told every one of those guys to try redline before doing cam and lifters and every single one except for one guy told me "oil cant fix part failure" which dont get me wrong is true if its to far gone. The one guy that tried it? His tick is gone.
Same with some facebook ram groups im in. Atleast 3 posts a week about lifter tick. Ive told every one of those guys to try redline before doing cam and lifters and every single one except for one guy told me "oil cant fix part failure" which dont get me wrong is true if its to far gone. The one guy that tried it? His tick is gone.
No, but oil can clean and lube better. A lot of those ticking hemis are worked hard on it 5w20 oil. The hemi is running way too hot for off the shelf 5W-20.
Yes but i will never stop! Lol must save the ticking hemis!Awesome, so you helped one deserving guy and a bunch of undeserving guys are still living in misery with the engine knock, lmao. Good work