Did Redline Oil work against your Hemi Tick?

U&A · Jan 21, 2020

Tim Garceau said:
$80 on oil and then additive, talk about high maintenance!

Think of it as a membership fee every 6 months to a year (your OCI) that gets you into a park called “piece of mind”

I pay that membership fee for every single reciprocating engine I own (besides 2strokes)

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Tim Garceau · Jan 21, 2020

Truck is in the critical 75k+ mile zone with the lifters, running Amazon Basics with a half bottle of LiquiMoly in the dead of winter.

I’ll drop the oil analysis from BS after, but it’s been butter smooth for 4K on the change. The custom tune does keep the idle near 50psi minimum however.

Maligator · Jan 22, 2020

I think I'm going to be trying redline again. I used it religiously in my 5.7. and worked well to quiet the tick. Since I've had the 6.4 I was using PUP and the tick was slight but still there, tried amsoil last change and to me it's actually gotten worse. Next change I will be back to redline again to see how it does in my 6.4

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kempo780 · Jan 22, 2020

What is the shelf life of oil? I can get 12 qts of redline 5w20 on amazon right now for $9.83 per Qt. I would only use 7 of the 12 qts for this oil change and save the rest for the next change in another 6k miles. My question is; will the oil sitting in the garage until the next change still be fresh?

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OCDTech · Jan 22, 2020

kempo780 said:
What is the shelf life of oil? I can get 12 qts of redline 5w20 on amazon right now for $9.83 per Qt. I would only use 7 of the 12 qts for this oil change and save the rest for the next change in another 6k miles. My question is; will the oil sitting in the garage until the next change still be fresh?

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Not sure, cool environment etc should last couple years. but i do this, Bought two gallons, saved til next year. but, nick sells 7 quart package, so i may go with that from now on.

tidefan1967 · Jan 23, 2020

kempo780 said:
What is the shelf life of oil? I can get 12 qts of redline 5w20 on amazon right now for $9.83 per Qt. I would only use 7 of the 12 qts for this oil change and save the rest for the next change in another 6k miles. My question is; will the oil sitting in the garage until the next change still be fresh?

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I read somewhere on here its good for like 5 years before some of the additives start to fall out of suspension. Here's a little video about some 70 year old oil:

Lyle Longboat · Jan 23, 2020

Sorry for the late response, hell yeah this stuff works! I changed the oil the day before a 700km trip and she the most quiet she has ever been. I had a noticeable tick (after I found out what to listen for) before I switched my oil. I was like damn, got the tick.
Changed the oil and drove around a while, but didn’t notice anything, just a peace of mind.
Started out on my trip and once I Arrived back home, remembered about the oil. Checked and she wasn’t ticking and sounded pretty quiet. I was like “damn this stuff works”.

I used 5w20 with RP filter so I’ll be good for a bit. It’s a bit pricey here in Northern ON, $100 for 7 quarts oil and $30 for RP filter online.
I’d say money well spent.

Midnight Storm · Jan 23, 2020

Lyle Longboat said:
Sorry for the late response, hell yeah this stuff works! I changed the oil the day before a 700km trip and she the most quiet she has ever been. I had a noticeable tick (after I found out what to listen for) before I switched my oil. I was like damn, got the tick.
Changed the oil and drove around a while, but didn’t notice anything, just a peace of mind.
Started out on my trip and once I Arrived back home, remembered about the oil. Checked and she wasn’t ticking and sounded pretty quiet. I was like “damn this stuff works”.

I used 5w20 with RP filter so I’ll be good for a bit. It’s a bit pricey here in Northern ON, $100 for 7 quarts oil and $30 for RP filter online.
I’d say money well spent.

May I asked where you got it for $100? I pay almost $20 per/L

Lyle Longboat · Jan 23, 2020

Midnight Storm said:
May I asked where you got it for $100? I pay almost $20 per/L

Partsource. I was surprised they carry the stuff and in pretty much whatever you run.

Lyle Longboat · Jan 23, 2020

1Gallon is around 61 and 2 quarts run roughly shy of 40.
In Timmins ON.

Burla · Jan 23, 2020

Lyle Longboat said:
Sorry for the late response, hell yeah this stuff works! I changed the oil the day before a 700km trip and she the most quiet she has ever been. I had a noticeable tick (after I found out what to listen for) before I switched my oil. I was like damn, got the tick.
Changed the oil and drove around a while, but didn’t notice anything, just a peace of mind.
Started out on my trip and once I Arrived back home, remembered about the oil. Checked and she wasn’t ticking and sounded pretty quiet. I was like “damn this stuff works”.

I used 5w20 with RP filter so I’ll be good for a bit. It’s a bit pricey here in Northern ON, $100 for 7 quarts oil and $30 for RP filter online.
I’d say money well spent.

Thanks for update, experiences like this is why oil is such a hot topic on this forum. If not for people continuing to have this result we would have stopped talking oil shop long ago. Nice thing about redline, as the extreme pressure additives work it gets even better with time. That hot idle tick if the bad one, if we can keep that away we might just keep lifter failure away.

Burla · Jan 23, 2020

kempo780 said:
What is the shelf life of oil? I can get 12 qts of redline 5w20 on amazon right now for $9.83 per Qt. I would only use 7 of the 12 qts for this oil change and save the rest for the next change in another 6k miles. My question is; will the oil sitting in the garage until the next change still be fresh?

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At least a decade...

OCDTech · Jan 23, 2020

Lyle Longboat said:
Sorry for the late response, hell yeah this stuff works! I changed the oil the day before a 700km trip and she the most quiet she has ever been. I had a noticeable tick (after I found out what to listen for) before I switched my oil. I was like damn, got the tick.
Changed the oil and drove around a while, but didn’t notice anything, just a peace of mind.
Started out on my trip and once I Arrived back home, remembered about the oil. Checked and she wasn’t ticking and sounded pretty quiet. I was like “damn this stuff works”.

I used 5w20 with RP filter so I’ll be good for a bit. It’s a bit pricey here in Northern ON, $100 for 7 quarts oil and $30 for RP filter online.
I’d say money well spent.

Welcome to the team. :banana-mario:

U&A · Jan 23, 2020

Maligator said:
I think I'm going to be trying redline again. I used it religiously in my 5.7. and worked well to quiet the tick. Since I've had the 6.4 I was using PUP and the tick was slight but still there, tried amsoil last change and to me it's actually gotten worse. Next change I will be back to redline again to see how it does in my 6.4

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Redline 5w40 is the winning ticket for the 6.4. Give it a shot[emoji1303]. It has been proven on the syn thread to be a top choice for that engine.

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tidefan1967 · Jan 24, 2020

Lyle Longboat said:
Sorry for the late response, hell yeah this stuff works! I changed the oil the day before a 700km trip and she the most quiet she has ever been. I had a noticeable tick (after I found out what to listen for) before I switched my oil. I was like damn, got the tick.
Changed the oil and drove around a while, but didn’t notice anything, just a peace of mind.
Started out on my trip and once I Arrived back home, remembered about the oil. Checked and she wasn’t ticking and sounded pretty quiet. I was like “damn this stuff works”.

I used 5w20 with RP filter so I’ll be good for a bit. It’s a bit pricey here in Northern ON, $100 for 7 quarts oil and $30 for RP filter online.
I’d say money well spent.

I know its a lot of money but you can be totally confident that it will provide maximum protection until the OLM times out somewhere in the vicinity of 10K miles. Many of the guys on here have the UOA's to prove that number and way beyond under some pretty harsh conditions. Me personally there's no other oil out there that I would consider running that long in the HEMI.

Desertdawg · Feb 8, 2020

Just about ready to change oil in my '13 1500 4x4 with 99k miles. Been running oil when I bought it 5,000 miles back. Looking at either Mobil I or Redline, but what's all this about the TriboDyn oil brand?

dexter · Feb 9, 2020

Desertdawg said:
Just about ready to change oil in my '13 1500 4x4 with 99k miles. Been running oil when I bought it 5,000 miles back. Looking at either Mobil I or Redline, but what's all this about the TriboDyn oil brand?

You don't have to go full m1 or RL.

I use 2qts of T6 and 5 of PUP 0w40. You get the best of both worlds.

16RamHemi · Feb 9, 2020

dexter said:
You don't have to go full m1 or RL.

I use 2qts of T6 and 5 of PUP 0w40. You get the best of both worlds.

6.4?

dexter · Feb 9, 2020

16RamHemi said:
6.4?

yes

Burla · Feb 9, 2020

Desertdawg said:
Just about ready to change oil in my '13 1500 4x4 with 99k miles. Been running oil when I bought it 5,000 miles back. Looking at either Mobil I or Redline, but what's all this about the TriboDyn oil brand?

I don't know anyone running it. As you see redline has earned it's bones as a tick fighter, but it doesn't mean that there may not be other products that can possible match or even beat their success rate. The reason we started using redline was because the science was easy to access, we know it's high moly, high esters, and high pao among other additives and we "theorized" it could possibly help because of this easy to access information, and the rest is history. I would say in order to build a coalition of testers as we have done with redline is to use the science to convince them to try it to battle hemi tick, the results are what keeps driving it, so if it succeeds as redline has, then it becomes another tool in the tool box. Any brand name is meaningless, it's about the formula and the results, that is where the rubber meets the road. The more products that we can find as viable options the better off we are.

Did Redline Oil work against your Hemi Tick?

Did redline kill your hemi tick?

Yes, Redline killed my tick..

NO, Redline was NOT successful at killing my tick...

It helped partially to quiet hemi tick...

Man I am tired of hearing about Redline :)

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