This should be... interesting.
Assessing your internal engine health can be difficult without a full teardown, but one of the best ways to find out what’s going on inside your engine is by analyzing the composition of your used motor oil.
Tonight on a special Monday edition of Grassroots Motorsports Live! Presented by CRC Industries, Lake Speed, Jr. from Driven Racing Oil and SpeeDiagnostix joins us to discuss just what can be learned from analyzing your oil, and how that data should affect how you treat your engine.
We’ll even give away a couple oil diagnostic kits to some lucky viewers.
Join us live on the Grassroots Motorsports Facebook Page and YouTube Channel at 9pm eastern with your questions and comments.
This should be... interesting.
I will definitely be on tonight. I am curious how they can determine much with their limited testing.
Curious as well. Wondering about starting oil analysis on an engine at mid life or better.
In reply to NermalSnert :
There's value in it, depending on what you want/trying to do. It's great for extending oil drains or for long term trending to monitor wear. It's not as valuable in a vehicle with a 4qt capacity as it might be on something with 10 gallons, but there's value. I have customers that used it to find their personal sweet spot for OCI's then sample once a year to make sure nothing is getting crazy. One nice gentleman had 700+k on a 4.8 GM doing this.
"One nice gentleman had 700+k on a 4.8 GM doing this." Holy e36 M3! And, good info. Thanks!
sadly that one sent a rod through the side of the block.... but I think at that mileage on a light duty engine, metal fatigue is just unavoidable at that point. you can only heat up, cool down and swing around for so long!
Heating up, cooling down, and swinging around is starting to tire my ass out now, too. :)
I'm also thrown for a loop that GRM live isn't on a Wednesday this week.
captdownshift said:I'm also thrown for a loop that GRM live isn't on a Wednesday this week.
if we can't laugh, we have nothing
Yeah, it feels weird here, too. Like driving by your school in the summer. But we adjusted our schedule this week to accommodate our guest, who's only in town for a couple days. I may pop in Wednesday just to say "hi" though.
I'll be throwing scandavian flicks through the snow to get back in time. Though I should be working on a cover letter.
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