[Lil Black 4x4 Hemi]

Just like it says, I changed oil about 10 days ago and got my report from Blackstone Labs Thursday. It appears that my motor still isn't broken in at ~21K miles and right under a year later.

To date I've done 4 oil changes, 2 previous with Rotella 0w40, 1 with Castrol 0w40, and currently it has Rotella again. I'm going to run the tests on the Rotella as well.

I use the larger diameter Hemi filters, either Purolator Pure One (gold) or Wix. The additional filtration might be the reason for the Blackstone Recommendation for a 9k oil interval.

I'm going to run the Rotella for about the same amount of time and see what I come up with.

 

[Andrew09HEMI]

Can you post a bigger picture? Even when clicking on image it too small to read

 

[dextersp1]

Just like it says, I changed oil about 10 days ago and got my report from Blackstone Labs Thursday. It appears that my motor still isn't broken in at ~21K miles and right under a year later.

How do you measure if it is broken in or not?

 

[Thunderhorse]

Thanks for posting, but its like 1"x2" and impossible to read. IDK if you saw my UOA, but I cropped it in MS paint and covered up my personal info and then uploaded it via the gallery to get it to a legible size. It took like 4 tries to get it right lol

 

[Lil Black 4x4 Hemi]

Grrrr, I thought it worked after I posted.

This should be legible to anyone!

 

[Lil Black 4x4 Hemi]

How do you measure if it is broken in or not?

Hard to say, but my buddy has a '14 with a 5.7 and he was telling me it seemed it took his forever to break in.

As a slight aside, a good friend of the family had a number of rams over the years and told my dad it seemed to him it took a ram 75k to break-in and finally start to get mileage etc.

 

[Thunderhorse]

Yep, I can read it now

 

[huntergreen]

Hard to say, but my buddy has a '14 with a 5.7 and he was telling me it seemed it took his forever to break in.

As a slight aside, a good friend of the family had a number of rams over the years and told my dad it seemed to him it took a ram 75k to break-in and finally start to get mileage etc.

seems a little long. 5.9 cummins guys say it took about 60000 miles for that engine. maybe this caused some confusion?

 

[huntergreen]

op which Castrol oil was used.

 

[Andrew09HEMI]

Interesting report. Crazy to think Copper that high is normal, guess Im used to the BMW world still that if you see anything higher than 15 you have bearing issues! I have a blackstone kit and Im curious to get it tested with my 14 having 19k miles on dealer oil changes.

 

[dextersp1]

Hard to say, but my buddy has a '14 with a 5.7 and he was telling me it seemed it took his forever to break in.

As a slight aside, a good friend of the family had a number of rams over the years and told my dad it seemed to him it took a ram 75k to break-in and finally start to get mileage etc.

I remember a post about the 6.4L getting better mileage after a certain amount of miles.

I have 8K on my truck now and drove 2,500 from Atlanta or Oregon, then picked up a 6,000lb travel trailer and I have been towing that.

I've noticed that the cold has the most detrimental effect on MPG, then wind - nothing scientific - just something I've noticed from tracking my mpg.