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Old 01-01-2020, 11:50 PM
poncho-mike poncho-mike is offline
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I've been running Rotella for years.

When I was a teenager in the 70s, the first thing my dad did when he bought a car was change the oil to diesel oil. He was a mechanic, so I assumed he knew what he was doing.

I didn't quite follow his footsteps at first. I ran Castrol 30HD and GTX for a number of years in my Pontiacs until I wiped out a cam lobe on my 74 T/A after only about 10K miles around 1996. That's when I started reading about the ZDDP being removed from the oils, so I switched to diesel.

I always ran Rotella in my 78 and 93 3/4 ton 454 Suburbans. I retired the 78 with over 300K miles and sold the 93 at 250K miles. I never had any oil related failures with Rotella.