Re: What oil do you use on a solid roller?
[Re: Uncle Barry]
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Re: What oil do you use on a solid roller?
[Re: Uncle Barry]
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I've been doing some reading on this and I see some research that zinc in solid roller applications could do more harm than good due to carbon build up etc. What do you folks use? I've always used Rotella 15w40 with a bottle of Lucas engine oil break in additive and had good luck. I use straight Rotella 15w40 and the T&D rockers (adjusted hot to Comp Cam's specs) rattle like hell at idle. Not that it worries me any, but I read that w30 would quiet it down some.
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Re: What oil do you use on a solid roller?
[Re: Moparpoor]
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Rotella 15w40 with a bottle of Lucas engine oil for 10 years
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Re: What oil do you use on a solid roller?
[Re: justinp61]
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I have primarily used Rotella.
This was posted by Jason Tabscott on facebook yesterday. He has averaged in the 9.0s on drag week and been 8.9X before with a NA small block. Could just be rumor but I believe he runs near 1" of lift.
Small Block on Drag Week means less than 430" so its not a giant engine.
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Re: What oil do you use on a solid roller?
[Re: Bad340fish]
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I ran Mobil One 15w50 synthetic for several years in my hemi w/ no problems at all. I switched to Valvoline VR1 20w50 conventional oil when the Mobil One got hard to find. Everything still looks great. I've sent my lifters back to Isky twice for inspection and both time came back w/ a clean bill of health...needed nothing. I bought them new in 2006.
My wedge motor has Crane roller lifters in it and I ran it for about 4 years w/ Mobil One 15w50 synthetic. No problems from that one either.
Both street/strip combos.
CHIP '70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60 '69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60 '71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75 '73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75 '90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt '06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
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Re: What oil do you use on a solid roller?
[Re: second 70]
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Chip I ran the same Mobil 15w50 synthetic in my hemi. It was labeled as racing oil and did contain 1200p zinc. Yep, good stuff. Only reason I stopped using it was for a while, I couldn't find any on the shelf anywhere.
CHIP '70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60 '69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60 '71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75 '73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75 '90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt '06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
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Re: What oil do you use on a solid roller?
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