I guess neither of you has ever suffered from (or even HEARD of) a slow-acting latent fault causing catastrophic damage. I wish I was that lucky.

 

I just sent my oil off to Blackstone Labs... Cost was $20 cause I mentioned The Diesel Garage. The collection kit was free.

 

I prefer Blackstone Labs. Yes, it is worth the cost to me.

 

I've heard of it, never suffered from it. You must be pretty hard on your vehicles if it's something you need to worry about.

 

Diesel garage is a great site. They have a total rebuild of my transmission w/color pictures . That site helped me bigtime..

 

Analysis is a report on the oil and the engine and any harmony the two may have. Certain GM v6 engines do not respond well to a PAO type syntehitc but respond very well to an ester blend. You wouldn't know that unless you worked the analysis. If you have a leaky injector, you may not know it unless excess fuel showed up in the anaysis. You can have a leaking head gasket, known to happen to Tritons, and catching it early is most beneficial. This would show up in analysis. You can have an oil that the add pack may not be the best for extending the life of the engine. You can tailor your engine and oil combination using analysis- this is how the NASCAR teams do it- and you thought they bought Mobil One at Pep Boys. Analysis has many different faces and is worth the bucks if you intend to maximize the engine life and keep the vehicle until its final days. If you trade vehicles every 75,000 miles- it isn't worth the investment but it can be fun.

 

You don't have to be hard on a vehicle to want it to last, and yes, I'm VERY hard on them. Also, both of their engines came from junkyards, so I don't even know how many miles are on them, but I know the Bronco engine has over 350Kmi & the CV has over 150Kmi. Both run great, and I plan to keep them that way - oil analysis is the cheapest & most effective way I know to monitor their internal conditions.

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