Colthebrummie
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With the amount of time you guys spend with your rangies and discos off the road having the oil changed and the various and frequent breakdowns, it's a wonder you ever get to drive them anywhere except to a garage. I'm pretty sure a modern unstressed engines can go for at least 12,000 miles before it needs its oil changing.
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My Jag has the 4.0 Jaguar lump in it. Nothing as mundane as a Ford engine in there! It goes like **** off a Teflon shovel.
Turboman
Mab An Gov
It was fine in an old Fordson, and in fact was recommended by Ford for use in the engine, as well as the gearbox and back axle. However, I always used multigrade diesel engine oil in my Fordsons.
BTW reading your earlier posts, just thought I might mention, because your OP was in the range rover section, I had assumed the term rv8 referred to the original Rover V8 engine, a sleeved down Buick engine. In fact it seems you were referring to only the later engines. They will be more suited to synthetic oil, but pretty sure they will run fine on mineral multigrade too. Mine did.
Turboman
Mab An Gov
Fair enough. Bloke in the marina has a Jaguar saloon with a 2.2 Duratorque. I know nothing of Jaguars.
Duratorque is actually a very good motor, powerful, economical, and reliable. One of the best diesels Ford ever made.
I love my Mondeo.For some reason, it isn't a great engine in a landrover, possibly due to the fact landrovers have manual box.
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AJ8, its successor.
Hi turboman I wasn't referring to your good self with the tractor universal oil. There were a lot of people who insisted tuo was the best oil around for anything with wheels. Especially land rovers. It's an oil that can be used in everything on a tractor. Steering gearbox hydraulics etc.
Turboman
Mab An Gov
Depends on the tractor. Some like TUO, some like injun oil in the engine, gear oil in the gearbox. My International liked hydraulic oil in the rear axle, everything runs off the hydraulic pump on those.
I would never consider using TUO in a landrover, or any other road vehicle. I imagine people did that because it was cheap.
norseman
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Do that with a RV8 & you are asking for trouble, if ever I look at one with a view to buying (for myself or on behalf of a friend) the first thing I do after opening the hood is to remove the oil filler cap & shine a pencil-beam torch onto the rockers, anything darker than a brown coating (golden gets top marks) it's time to walk away
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Turboman
Mab An Gov
Do that with a RV8 & you are asking for trouble, if ever I look at one with a view to buying (for myself or on behalf of a friend) the first thing I do after opening the hood is to remove the oil filler cap & shine a pencil-beam torch onto the rockers, anything darker than a brown coating (golden gets top marks) it's time to walk away
Yes. Petrol engine the oil should look like oil. With a diesel, a bit of blackness is acceptable, but you don't want it looking like tar.
Yes, the early ones had Nikasil liners and some owners had issues. It was the timing chain guides that were an issue and upgraded. Mine is after those issues. Apparently there was a throttle body issue for my version (2001) but people were split on whether it really was an issue or not. I've certainly never had one, other than the coil plugs going at 70k miles. Other than that it is so smooth it is inaudible unless you floor it and then it takes off like a scalded cat. Be nice to shoe-horn one into the Rangie one day.
Sorry, should have been more specific: into my Rangie, the P38!
Colthebrummie
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We all thought you were on about a crop sprayer.
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chris-the-gerbil
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Why would a synthetic oil be thinner than a mineral oil? At the same viscosity number they are - unsurprisingly - the same thickness....
Bore glazing shouldn't be an issue once run in, and that can be an issue with modern synthetics and "traditional" bore honing techniques but that's not a reason not to run synthetics once the engine is run in.
Turboman
Mab An Gov
No reason, but they often are, modern engines are designed for thin oil, saves on fuel.
I only know what I have seen, and what I have seen is bores on old engines glazed after using synthetic oils. They are excellent lubricants.
