Outer Limits 4x4 Board

What Viscosity oil and type (synthetic, semi-synthetic or mineral based oil) do u use in your TB42 engine??

i run a 20/50 at the moment, but will change to 25/70 soon, as the tb42 has pretty low pressure anyway.

Thicker is not always better. Oil need to move thru to remove HEAT. Thinner more stable oils are better.

Bazzle

shortgq wrote:What Viscosity oil and type (synthetic, semi-synthetic or mineral based oil) do u use in your TB42 engine??

Don't worry about what we run you need to be more specific - do you have dual fuel, do you dyno tune your car daily (ie. have little or no pints on your licence), run a turbo with ? Boost. and lastly how much you budget for oil changes are as well as how frequent??? Then and only then we can give you our opinions - sound fair???

Dave

The engine is straight petrol who occasionally cops a flogging and its oil is changed every 5000 with 10w40 semi-synthetics. Just changed the oil pressure sender and guage shows over 6 at start upo and around 4 once warmed up.

what did it show before you changed the sender? did it fix it?

it used to show erratically between below 2 and max of 4, i was told this was near normal, i'm not so sure anymore.

mmmm.....thats what mine does!! what was the sender worth?

$111 from nissan dealers, make sure u get the redesigned one with the long tube acting as a drain

thanks

rx super diesel oil. run it in all my cars, petrol & diesel. In my exp is the best oil 15-40

I use BP's Vanellus C6 GLOBAL as i have been useing it for year now.
On all my diesel i think all are good now a days just as long as new oil ever 5000 k's i dont you will have any prb..
later

Using FUCHS 33 titan 15w40 in a TD42. Had the oil sender pack it in newy cost $119 genuine with drain. Pressure runs at 4 and 2 at idle, according to the manual this is the norm

I thought TB42 was a petrol and although nissan were pretty lazy and used the same parts on the rigs I am sure that they used different oils.... But thanks if I ever am scared with the pace of speed limits I will buy a diesel and see how you guys struggle to 60kms.....

Ta
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