Bought 15w50 today for the 300CD at El Mercado del Wal. $22.88 for 5 qt jug. They did hav 5w40 diesel truck.
Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 7:21 PM Dwight Giles <dwight.gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you all for a great oil thread. I started it on Craig's suggestion > & as an alternative to whatever OT OT we were on then. I got 58 posts,& > learned a LOT. Still haven't bought oil for 300 CD but leaning > toward,15w50. > > Dwight Giles Jr. > Wickford RI > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:16 AM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> >> > On August 9, 2019 at 11:15 PM Curley McLain via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> > My OM603s did OK with the 10-40 stuff, back >> > when it was real M1 and had enough zinc. But I tried the 5W-40 and >> got >> > rattly lifters (not a problem with the iron heads, but still signals >> > that the oil is too thin.) Also, the oil consumption went way high >> > with the 5w-x stuff, but was back to nothing with the 15W-50. >> >> I can recall people experiencing that with a change from 5W40 Delvac to >> 0W40 M1 euro. >> Shouldn't happen, but IIRC Marshall swore it did. >> If changing from xW50 to xW40 did it in one car, I'd think the lifters >> were on the way out in that car. If it happened with multiple cars, I'd be >> interested in finding out why. >> >> Mitch >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
