200,000 Bottom End

Grabbin' Asphalt

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The odometer is about to flip to 200,000 miles. It had 46,000miles on it when I purchased it in '94. I'll try and snap pics of the line up of the numbers as it puts on a few thousand miles. Some have said that's how you can tell the odometer has flipped with the numbers being off line. Snap a pic of yours add it to this post so we can compare people's #'s

 

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So after the flip it seems the 0's have lined up perfetly with the other 2 numbers in line. We'll see what happens when we get into the hundred and then thousand mile numbers.

 

JD1964

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Whoa! Check out that oil pressure? Is that operating temp idle pressure on a 200k motor?

 

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Lol, wondering if someone would see that
First one is at start up but stays near that 75% mark afterwards, 2nd one is just lights on. When I started adding 20-50 synthetic it raised my psi pretty good. Put in a high volume oil pump to help throw that thicker stuff around. I'm in georgia in this DD with city traffic, gets pretty darn hot so I went this route to help out my high mile bottom end. Just putting in some 20-50 will raise it.

 

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Colonel Mustard

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um, 20w50 will not do your bottom end or bearings any good. I'd talk to smeone like @Rick 91GT for an expert opinion though

 

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I've used it since 2001 and it raised my stock needle up from 25-30psi on the stock gauge so it makes me feel better. Doesn't bounce around at those low numbers when it gets in hot rush hour traffic either

 

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I used to run 20-50 in all my vehicles year round. Then the first cold ass morning of this winter I went to start my Bronco and that thing hammered for like 5 seconds until it finally was able to build up oil pressure. I live in Arkansas so you'd think "hey it won't get too cold" yeah freaking right. -2 degrees and 20-50 is like molasses. All my vehicles got 10-30 real freaking quick. Also, thicker oil robs HP

 

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I run 5w-30 conventional year round here in AZ with the high pressure pump I just put in it about the same as yours above but I have 175k on my block. do my oil every 3k with a wix filter. the previous owner was not as nice when I had the intake off to do the intake manifold gaskets it looked like someone had been running this car on coffee and mud. the first two oil changes were HD oil with 1 quart of MMO and was changed at 1k miles. with how it looked you would have thought I went to 8-10k on the oil.

 

JD1964

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10-30 full synth here

 

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So the 1 is now off set on the hundred mark, its lower than both nubers beside it.