I am using Mobil one 5W-30, I am thinking of trying Royal Purple.

Does anyone have any ideas? What do you use?

 

Any non recycled oil is fine, as long as you change it before it goes black. Toyota Canada uses Esso/Exxon oil, in 5w30. You will be fine with Exxon/Mobil1, or any other synthetic.

Be sure to use the genuine Toyota oil filters.

 

Amsoil here in everything.

 

i like castrol, but im gonna try some mobile1 in my new motor.

not to thread jack but has anybody ever heard of synthetic not being good for break in oil? someone told me that synthetic would keep your rings from seeting, ever heard of that?

 

Mobil 1 in engine ...Redline in everything else

 

I use Royal Purple in my crankcase, diffs and tranny. I change the crankcase twice a year and it looks pretty good. I live very close to work so I don't put many miles on the truck on average. So two RP oil changes equals 4 regular oil changes at cost.

From everything I've read between synthetic and regular dino, the car parts with synthetic oils are worn about the same but are a little bit cleaner upon inspection.

I do rev my 22RE between 3500 - 4000 RPM.

 

This has been beat to death before, but you cant look at oil and tell its ok.Short trips can cause oil to break down sooner you have to get OAs done on your oil to see whats going on no mater whos oil you run.

 

TOYOTA 1

I was always told no synthetic for the first 5 or 10K miles, something to do with the break in?

 

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Rob

 

I use 10w-30 synthetic oil, its a yota man it aint gonna seize up to soon if your oil is not heavy or light enough.

 

On rebuilt engines, use regular non-synthetics until your oil consumption drops to normal. 5k is usually pretty safe.

On a factory new engine, feel free to use synthetics right from the start. It will be fine.

 

x 2 on the royal purple.. i have also some lucas oil stabilizer and z max
its actually an amazing difference in power

 

super tech from wal mart

 

I run Pennzoil 10w-30 in everything I own. Change my oil between 2,800 and 3,000 miles. If I could afford it or when I buy a nicer car, I will use Mobile 1. But so far Pennzoil has treated my motors great.

The one rebuild I did I was told not to use synthetic and up until I sold it it never burned or leaked a drop. So if it were me I wouldn't use synthetic on a rebuild. Perhaps after you feel the motor is broken in synthetic would be a good option.

 

Royal Purple on the 02 Tundra, 93 MR2 Turbo, 04 TL, and 96 4 runner. I don't mind spending the extra money to do oil changes every 6,000 miles.

 

valvoline synthetic 5w40. valvoline dino gear oils at the moment. once i get around to replacing the bearings & gears i will switch to valvoline synthetic in there as well

 

I'm using 10W 40. No matter what you use you still have to change it every 3,000 miles because you own a toyota, a engine that is know for sludging.i have read where people use full synethic and wait 5000 and 7500 miles to change their oil and was loosing 1/2 to 1 qt of oil.

 

castrol high mileage 10-40

 

Amsoil 5w-30 with Amsoil filter

They say on their package that if you use both together, you won't need changing for a year or 15000miles. I decided to do a trial with their products. I put them in last year, and just to be safe considered my driving to be 'severe' (stop n go, short distance trips), so I changed them recently at the 10 month marker. Color looked nearly the same as when I put fresh qts in.

I'd use Mobil1 too if I had a second choice. But I'd make sure I matched it up with a Mobil1 filter.

Redline, Royal Purple, Castrol, etc...they're all good synthetic brands. Not sure what are good filters though, above Toyota standard.

I had read somewhere on that use-dino-oil-to-break-in-new-engines-rule. I've also read that switching to synthetic on an engine that's already got oil leak problems is going to aggravate the leaks due to a much slippery-thin structure compared to dino.

Final answer is to just pick one and check if whether the oil level actually decreases significantly.

Great topic to debate however.

 

oil discussions are like tv shows on this site... hell we ought to write a YOTATECH GUIDE of when an oil debate will occur. prob at least every week. lol. but you're right... it is a good topic to discuss.