What type of oil?

[FordF350Baby]

I want to get some Amsoil synthetic oil, but dont know what weight to use for my 1997 460ci motor.

Heres the link to the site: https://www.amsoil.com/storefront/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=228

 

[Skandocious]

Hahahahhaha you're about to receive an a$$ whooping Mike, lol!!! There's a lot of guys on this site that hate that company with a passion. Most people refer to it as 'Scamsoil'. If I were you, I'd stay far away from their products. If you want to run synthetic oil I'd run Mobil 1 Synthetic 10w30. What have you been running before this, synthetic or dino?

 

[FordF350Baby]

o really lol I have been running Mobile 1, should i stick with it?? What is so bad about Amsoil!??

 

[blacksnapon]

My opinion.......whatever you start with, stay with. Trouble comes when you switch around.

 

[Skandocious]

I agree with Vince, that's why I asked what you were using before... If this is a high mileage motor that has been running dino oil all it's life, STICK with dino oil. You open a can of worms when you switch from conventional to synthetic on a high mileage engine. You'll most start finding leaks all over the place.

"If it ain't broke... Don't fix it"

 

[Skandocious]

Oh and by the way... My personal experience with Amsoil products...

Once upon a time when I was young and naive --- I wanted to change my transmission fluid so I found the most expensive crap I could find --- Amsoil just about takes the cake. After running around the state trying to acquire a whopping 16 quarts of fluid and spending $150 for the fluid and probably another $50 in fuel, I got home and changed her out. Only a couple hundred miles later my transmission started making a funny grinding/whooshing noise. I thought for sure that my tranny was going out and I spent hours on the forums trying to figure out my problem.

Months later I decided to change the fluid just for fun. Changed back to Valvoline conventional ATF.... Noise never came back.

 

[FordF350Baby]

Aint that sumthin thats annoying huh? I have also been advised in the past to use Amsoil ATF for my tranny, but I havent wanted to spend that kind of money

 

[john112deere]

My opinion.......whatever you start with, stay with. Trouble comes when you switch around.

Mobil1 10W-30 has gotten my Ranger to a quarter million now, no way in heck it'll ever see a quart of anything else...