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Oil Thread - 6.4 Hemi

Rockcrawlerdude said:
Just for shiz n gigs I looked up the amsoil signature 0w-40 .. is it really $14.49 per quart? I don’t see how it can be twice as good as the PUP at $7.15/qt.
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It’s like $10/qt when you get the “preferred membership” which pays for itself quickly. I bought Like 2 cases of motor oil and a case of gear oil
 

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Rockcrawlerdude said:
Just for shiz n gigs I looked up the amsoil signature 0w-40 .. is it really $14.49 per quart? I don’t see how it can be twice as good as the PUP at $7.15/qt.
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As @el_barto mentioned... get the membership and (at least for me) it's about the same as the PuP.
And I usually make one big order for all the vehicles so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Gondul said:
As @el_barto mentioned... get the membership and (at least for me) it's about the same as the PuP.
And I usually make one big order for all the vehicles so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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But is it better? if it’s convincingly better I might try it despite poking fun of amsoil fanbois for years. But, I have 15 more quarts of PUP still in the garage so it would be about two years before I would need to consider changing oil brands.
The ram is the only one in the fleet that I care about oil choice since it has the longest OCI and it gets worked the hardest.
The Mazda CX-5 burns so much oil that it gets changed twice every time I change it once.
The Porsche gets conventional 20w50 so castrol gtx or rotella is cheap and perfect for it (5qt jug@ $18)
The Toyota gets whatever flavor I have laying around since I put like 25 miles a year on it and well, it’s a Toyota.
 
I ordered the AMSOil 0W-40. Yes, it’s expensive. So what? The truck was expensive.

Any recommendations on filters? I’ve always thought WIX/Napa Gold we’re good but I’m open to suggestions.
 
For those having oil changes coming up, I found the PuP on walmart.com for a decent price.
 
Whatever you do, don't try to pour the oil in quickly.
That little riser that the oil cap screws into won't take it very fast.
Now I have a little mess on top of the head. Should smell nice. :mad:
 
just James said:
Whatever you do, don't try to pour the oil in quickly.
That little riser that the oil cap screws into won't take it very fast.
Now I have a little mess on top of the head. Should smell nice. :mad:
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She’ll spit it out if she can’t swallow it fast enough. End result is messy head.

Learned that with other ones before this one.
 
kxnate said:
Did the first oil change on my truck last weekend. Figured hell with it and went with Penzoil. Decided I wasn't going to risk an argument over warranty should anything happen to my engine, and also feel that as expensive as these modern engines are to fix/replace, Ram/Fiat is not going to approve someone's oil that could potentially be detrimental to an engine while under warranty when they are footing the bill.
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Under it law it doesn't matter what brand of oil you use, just need to use the correct viscosity.
 
RAM Stag said:
You can run the Signature Series up to 25,000 miles or one year. www.ddiultimatelubes.myamsoil.com
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That’s impressive. I don’t have 25k miles on my truck yet and I’ve had it 2.5 years. That’s too long of an interval for me, though. The anti-drainback valve in the factory mopar oil filters gets weak at around 6k miles from my experience and I change it when I start getting noisy startups. I did switch filters to Wix xp and I’ll see if that works better.
 
Rockcrawlerdude said:
That’s impressive. I don’t have 25k miles on my truck yet and I’ve had it 2.5 years. That’s too long of an interval for me, though. The anti-drainback valve in the factory mopar oil filters gets weak at around 6k miles from my experience and I change it when I start getting noisy startups. I did switch filters to Wix xp and I’ll see if that works better.
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WIX or Amsoil filters are very good.
 
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