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I'm gonna need a break after this one
Maybe even a nap, I'm getting old, not as old as Murph, but close.What's your deal, do you have hemi tick? And what is your location?
0w30 might not STOP piston slap, even 0w20 might not, but it will bring lubrication there faster. Piston slap has to do with cold metal and the metal shrinks in the cold and creates the situation. The thing ram forum has found out is that 5w30 redline seams to be an antagonist in the cold, and 0w30 redline is better. That info was started this year with Justin and Corey leading the way. My opinion, hemi tick is the main worry, attempt to kill piston slap as well but not at the expense of warm idle tick. Every engine is different, and it may take resources $$ to find the answer. There are moves to make if you go thin to deal with piston slap and have warm idle tick, if that situation happens PM me.
UOA's and VOA's see blackstone thread show the additives in redline, conversations with redline when redline used to answer those questions gave us much of the knowledge. I hate that redline is the only choice personally, but I'm glad they exist. As in an oil company that sells a high moly, high zddp, pao/ester based oil at a reasonable price, and although their levels are higher then the api will allow, they don't go overboard with them like some applications such as racing require. Rather then getting into the minutia, I like to think of redline as just the choice after the over the counter stuff failed to get that tick out. And as proven here with a high success rate, certainly it is least something with tick should try once just to see if it kills tick. With long term uoa's, we have proven it is very possible that engines with ticks that have high wear numbers, when you kill that tick, long term wear numbers go down dramatically in the engines like hemi395's and others.
Additives, I think most people are correctly skeptical about additives. But you have to judge each one by itself, some additives just give you more the right type of moly and esters that it is possible ticks will be killed, amazon reviews tell the story. Also, tbn boosters have some use in guys that may be too busy to change their oil. But there are very few additives worth it, if you have questions about specific additives post question in syn thread. It is very rare I would recommend a flush, a better way to clean an engine is make sure your pcv is operating right and fresh high detergent oil.
5w30 redline is hemi honey, hard to think you can make that better. If it fails to kill hemi tick, we would need to discuss next move, so generally we don't like to add anything to redline.
So let us know more so we can help you sleep good at night so you can knock up your old lady, how many miles on ram? It's a 2015? What have you been using for oil now? Read the filter thread in my sig, filter is as important as oil.
unscientific thread m0s2 versus lubegard. There is some interesting info including the last video.
