Changed over to castrol diesel stuff. Seems to have a minor impact on pressure. Will keep going with changes and see if it gets better. If the sediment is flushed out that way, I should be able to use M1
clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1972 220D - Gump - She is green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Cleo - Used by the Queen of Denial POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers On Jul 6, 2012, at 8:22 PM, Hendrik & Fay wrote: > Sounds like you're engine has a lot of build up in the engine, due to > extended oil changes. > I have this in my ute, am using Diesel engine oil because it has a higher > amount of detergent, plus I bought a bulk lot of filters off ebay, I change > the oil and filter about every 2.5-3k kmhs. > Also had the low oil pressure thingy in my 300TE, due to using a differnt > oil, back to the Diesel oil (15w-20?) and pressure is back to normal 1 at > idle and up to 3 at about 1500rpm. > > Hendrik > who buys Diesel oil in bulk > > On 03/07/12 02:56, clay monroe wrote: >> I have about 1k on the recent oil fill in Frosch. Oil is black as night and >> nasty. Granted, I used rotella 20-50, but being a vergasser, there should >> not be the diesel sooting up of oil. >> >> What is the group consensus on early change of oil? Should I just go ahead >> and toss in fresh oil and filter, or wait another few thousand? Oil >> pressure at idle is near nil, but at speed, I have great pressure. >> >> >> clay >> >> >> 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
