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oil change time
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:52 am
by tamadrumr88
ive decided to do my own oil change for the first time and i also decided that since i wont be paying for labor, ill put that money towards buying better products (ie: redline/royal purple oil, etc). i know how the process works and ive read the neons.org faq, ive just never done it for myself
i hear alot about 20w-50 getting rid of the infamous piston slap, is this something i should look into??
should i consider synthetic @ 46k miles?
what brand filter other than an OEM/stock replacement.... fram? k&n?
thanks
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:35 pm
by SILVER-ES
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:48 pm
by dawm
theres also a topic on .org about filters
http://forums.neons.org/viewtopic.php?t=167038
i used to use fram x2 or whatever its called, but ive since switched to either the mopar filter or acdelco
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:37 pm
by tamadrumr88
i totally missed that, but theres still some questions remaining that dont pertain to synthetic oils
i still need to know:
5w-30, 10w-30, or 20w-50 synthetic mobil one
ACdelco filter all the way
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:08 pm
by Frizbe
5W is recomended, anything heavier sholud help with the piston slap, but you will have to change it before it gets to cold or the engine may not start because the oil is to heavy so the engine won't turn over.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:01 pm
by tamadrumr88
so how about something in between the 5w-30 and 20w-50 since winter is coming up? perhaps 10w-30.... when summer/spring comes ill go to 20w-50?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:47 pm
by WiTeOuT
Wow...I have never heard of using anything as heavy as 20w. Well....let us know how that works out for ya. Personally I always run 5w.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:58 pm
by half_twisted
20w-50 is way out of the ball park..
i was running 5w-30 up until 60k then dealer advised to use 10w-30 and im running 90k so far and still running 10w-30
othe guys on the
www.neonspeed.com are @ 120k ans still useing 5w-30. here are some links from the speed
thread touch on best oils and oil filters
http://www.neonspeed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13323
http://www.neonspeed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11693
http://www.neonspeed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10368
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:43 pm
by J-Villa
i just picked up 10w - 30
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:25 pm
by tamadrumr88
iirc louie ran a 20w-50
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:45 am
by Blazers04bluSXT
I CANT GET THE DRAIN PLUG OFF
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:17 pm
by tamadrumr88
atleast you got your udp working now
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:26 pm
by dblsg
