DerickE
Member
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2022
- Posts
- 39
- Reaction score
- 56
- Location
- Indianapolis Suburbs
- Ram Year
- 2019
- Engine
- 6.4L Gasser
When I bought my 2007 Suburban 2500, I feel like it had been neglected for a good long time prior. It had some wicked lifter tick, and through the use of various products (some right after the other), I feel like I mitigated lifter issues, and brought the motor back to a 'better' place. When I sold it, it had 202k on it, and I feel like I could have driven it cross country if I wanted to.
When I started working on that motor, I used so much stuff. And some of it I used so rapidly that I never really knew if it did anything useful. After the initial batch of various products, I ran a quart of marvel mystery oil, and then synthetic supertech oil, at 5k oil changes. The chatter dropped to nil, and it was super smooth at that point.
With this 6.4 using 0w-40, I feel like I shouldn't really thin it out any more than it is....but I thought about doing the seafoam treatment with 1/3 of a bottle in the oil and let that run through a few hundred miles before my next oil change. I obviously dont know maintenace history prior to my purchase, but simple things like that to break up any sludge that might have started up in the motor seems like a decent enough idea with low risk and low investment.
When I started working on that motor, I used so much stuff. And some of it I used so rapidly that I never really knew if it did anything useful. After the initial batch of various products, I ran a quart of marvel mystery oil, and then synthetic supertech oil, at 5k oil changes. The chatter dropped to nil, and it was super smooth at that point.
With this 6.4 using 0w-40, I feel like I shouldn't really thin it out any more than it is....but I thought about doing the seafoam treatment with 1/3 of a bottle in the oil and let that run through a few hundred miles before my next oil change. I obviously dont know maintenace history prior to my purchase, but simple things like that to break up any sludge that might have started up in the motor seems like a decent enough idea with low risk and low investment.
