so, just out of curiosity, what is your guys fascination with this Redline 5w30 over something lets say as decent as the PUP 5w30 ??? I mean I can get 3 of the 5 qt jugs of PUP off Amazon sent to the house, that covers 2 full oil changes, for roughly $100 (IMO an ABSURDLY good choice weighing the cost + the oil's quality). I'd spend $$double$$ that on the RL 5w30. Can that RL oil be that much better? Not trying to be dismissive here, or a know it all, just trying to gain some knowledge/insights.
In my first truck, I used Mopar 5w20 and the dreaded tick manifested itself on the 7th year of ownership. This happened despite me being so careful with my maintenance and changing the oil every 10,000kms.
We noticed that the tick was coming from one of the banks. We just changed the lifters in that bank and then based on
@Burla recommendation, I used Redline oil. The engine was smooth and sweet, right until I smashed the truck.
On the second truck, since I bought it used, there was a slight tick. Seemed to go away after I used RL 5W30. Continued, right until RL wasn't in stock. This about the same time I noticed a slight tick. This wasn't the dreaded one as I would find out later.
With RL being out of stock, I used AMSoil 5W30. In a matter of weeks, the tick became completely unbearable and I had to change it as soon a possible.
Again, only one bank had failed. So in order to save cost, I replaced the one bank and the best of the old ones were used for the other. We decided to use Castrol Magnatec Start Stop 5W30 after the rebuild.
In about a month after, the tick came back. I tried to remedy it by using a thicker oil, and that made it worse.
I had to replace the old lifters and decided to go with Redline 5W30, since it was back in stock. You can take my experience with a grain of salt. Everyone has their own experiences. Had I replaced all the lifters, maybe using Castrol Magnatec would have worked. However time and again, to many users on this forum, Redline has proven itself worthy of the moniker "HEMI Honey".
You can ask
@Burla and
@Hemi395. They have more experience with knowledge with RL. I believe
@Hemi395 uses Redline whenever his engine has the tick and it just cures it.
If RL does that for his engine, I'd say that it is really that much better.