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View Poll Results: What manufacture do you for diesel engine oil?
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Shell Rotella
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Chevron delo 400 15w 40
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20.00% |
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What ever meets the API Specs.
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04-30-2017, 08:37 AM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Oct 2009
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What Diesel oil do you use?
From time to time, the make of Diesel engine oil comes up.........what do you run and use and why??
Use the "Poll" above.......
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04-30-2017, 08:41 AM
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Fleetwood Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: SoCal
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Shell Rottella 15w-40 dino. Probably the most popular oil for diesel engine. Dispensed by Speedco locations, which I use for service.
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2011 Tiffin Phaeton 40QTH (Cummins ISC/Freightliner)
Flat towing a modified 2005 Jeep (Rubicon Wrangler)
Previously a 2002 Fleetwood Pace Arrow 37A and a 1995 Safari Trek 2830.
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04-30-2017, 08:57 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2015
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Available at Costco.
I buy it on sale.
Now, back to my coffee so I can wake up.
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04-30-2017, 08:59 AM
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Winnebago Owners Club Coastal Campers
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Marathon, Florida
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Rotella. BJ's wholesale was the best deal but last time I checked our local one they stopped selling it  Walmart still has it for a pretty good price for 2x2.5 gallon jugs. The big jugs are a little hard to handle so a helper is nice to have just to hold the funnel.
I guess the poll is about the brand, not the price. Rotella is one of the tried and true diesel oils that has been proven over the years. Synthetic sounds good but I believe Cummins says the change interval is the same with it so I can't see the point. Whatever you are comfortable with, just change it when it is supposed to be.
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2004 Winnebago Vectra 40KD
Shep dog, R.I.P. Kenzie dog Toad 2015 Jeep Wrangler Willys Wheeler
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04-30-2017, 09:13 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Graham Wa
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Royal Purple 15w-40..... I trusted this oil in my race motors that cost 90k.
Why not trust it in my daily drivers and Coach..
Amsoil full synthetic in the transmissions
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04-30-2017, 09:16 AM
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Outdoors RV Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Nowhere, now here. Freedom!
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API specs are fine, as long as you change the oil according to the owners manual schedule. Those automotive engineers actually do know what they're doing in regards to this.
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04-30-2017, 10:23 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Arkansas
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I'll stay with Mobile Delvac for now. Its what came in my Duramax.
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04-30-2017, 10:28 AM
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Senior Member
Country Coach Owners Club Solo Rvers Club iRV2 No Limits Club
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Location: Vancouver, WA
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Cummins filled mine with 14 gallons of Valvoline Premium Blue when they rebuilt the engine in 2015.
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04-30-2017, 10:37 AM
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Senior Member
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1bigmess
API specs are fine, as long as you change the oil according to the owners manual schedule. Those automotive engineers actually do know what they're doing in regards to this.
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X2;  30+ years in automotive , never saw an oil related failure in a maintained engine.
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04-30-2017, 10:49 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 573
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Valvoline Premium Blue
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Cummins 8.9 ISL 450
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04-30-2017, 11:44 AM
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Moderator in Memoriam
Newmar Owners Club
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Location: Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
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Shell Rotella. My mechanic likes it for diesels.
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2016 London Aire 4519, Freightliner chassis, Cummins ISX, 2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, Blue Ox Avail with AF1. TST 507 TPMS
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04-30-2017, 11:53 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Lafayette, La.
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Valvoline Premium Blue
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04-30-2017, 12:30 PM
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Member
Join Date: Feb 2017
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I use Valvoline Premium Blue in my F350 and will use it in when then time comes in my HM. That or Mobil I for me.
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04-30-2017, 12:49 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: "Murvul", TN
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Shell Rotella in the F250......Mobil 1 in everything else....car, SUV, and 5 different motorcycles.
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