I did read that earlier. Very good read.
Thanks to all for the reply's. Will be adding soon.

 

I am surprised to read about Chevron Delo oil not being approved. I run that in my Ford and Ram pickups, semi trucks, heavy equipment, and motorcycles with wet clutch. I buy many drums of it at a time, will look into it more now after reading this.
Cheers

 

Hey Sky. I'm on my phone. You own a 6.7 bro?

 

I was surprised about delo as well. i know a bunch of people who run it in their daily driver diesels. Stuff isnt even the cheapest option... Unless your getting it in by the drum maybe..

 

Many in company vehicles, also Ram diesels, a LOT of semis and heavy equipment.
Run Chevron Delo in them, have for years, never ever had any oil related problems running delo.

 

It isn't cheap, but i prefer drums, and their trucks deliver it. I don't want the hassle of hauling it to all the shops, gravel pits, here, etc. Chevron is great, I call the bulk plants, whichever is closest, they deliver products within 2 working days. Grease, coolant, oils, whatever. They also deliver all my gas, because my fuel trucks only haul Jet A1 and diesel. I have a call in to Chevron, haven't heard back yet, but its only been a couple of hours.

 

So had a good chat with an oil expert, the Chevron delo 10w30 sde oil is ford approved. Their other oils are not. So i guess I'll start ordering that to, for just the fords. I see it is only a semi synthetic, not full synthetic.
Good thread guys 🙂

 

You got a lot going on. I see why you order it by the drum.

 

I get most stuff in drums Dave. Coolant, gear oil, hydraulic oil, engine oil, and buy grease by the case, not tube. I'm glad to be able to keep using Delo as approved oil by ford. Sometimes calling an expert is very helpful. Really don't want to deal with another vendor, just to order one specific oil just for the ford diesels. Going to run the 10w30 since i will have it anyway, in a bunch of stuff for the summer time. Ordered 30 drums of it yesterday, 60 drums of hydraulic fluid, and 60 cases of grease, should be delivered tomorrow, to at least most locations, if not all.

 

Oh I get it...

Cases of grease are way cheaper than drums of oil though...

You're definitely spending some big $$$.

 

Wow, no Mobil1 5W-40 on the list either? I used that in my 7.3,6.0 and 6.4......

 

Opti-lube is a water demulsifier.

 

Good info for me too. I have run full synthetics in all my vehicles since late 80's, but I decided to try the Delo 15w40 in my truck a couple oil changes back. Because of the info on this thread, I moved from the unapproved Delo to T6 5W40 full synthetic. Interestingly, either because of the weight change, move to full synthetic, or both my avg fuel mileage went from steadily being around 15.2 up to 16.2-16.4 for the last two tanks of fuel. I don't think the fuel had changed over to summer mix yet either.

 

If it wasn't the fuel then my vote is the viscosity change.

 

I started using Motor-craft diesel fuel additive the first of March. I've been driving extra millage before returning home after making short trips into town and getting the engine good and hot. Millage has increased from 13.3 to 13.9 in three refuels.
I observed a Regen the other day which started a couple of miles before entering a town with traffic lights, with a speed limit of 45 for a couple of miles.

The Regen was still going but about to end when I got to the end of the town where I could get back up to 75. I drove maybe 17 more miles and watch the temperatures drop back down to 500 F or so.

Before the Regen started, The DPF Load was 127%, and the Soot was 3.1 l/g.

After Regen the Load was 30.1 % and the Soot was 1.53l/g

The Diesel fuel at the pump is 5% Biodiesel or (renewable diesel) what ever that means