Anyone using? Just got the Amsoil Magazine in the mail and they're featuring the EaO filter with full synthetic media and a life of 25k miles. There isn't an EaO for the LC 100, but there is an EA15K. What really surprised me was the chart showing the 20 micro efficiency - 98.7% for EaO while Toyota is at 51%.
They are pretty impressive filters but probably only worth it if you are running the full 25k OCI.
Yearly OCIs with a synthetic oil will probably work for most here. I think a lot of us are running the cruiser as a second vehicle because of gas prices and aren't topping 15k a year.
I will top out at over 25,000 mile this year on the hundred. I run Amsoil 10w30 and will be doing my first blackstone analysis soon. I have a little over 7000 miles on this oil change and it will be interesting to see what blackstone has to say. I will run that new filter when I change mile oil at 10,000 miles.
I wonder how these stack up against the Mobil 1 ford taurus filter I've been running...Im sure they do a better job, but I do the yearly OCI so I'm not sure if there would be any added benefit over my current setup (mostly since the 100 is traditionally pretty easy on oil).
They redesigned all the filter for the Toyota application...took them a couple years to get them right. I have one on my vehicle now....will be sending a sample off for testing at 8k and see what it says....and go from there. Third AMSOIL change since I bought her a little over a year ago....so should be all clean inside now.
I will top out at over 25,000 mile this year on the hundred. I run Amsoil 10w30 and will be doing my first blackstone analysis soon. I have a little over 7000 miles on this oil change and it will be interesting to see what blackstone has to say. I will run that new filter when I change mile oil at 10,000 miles.
Up to you, but I'd probably stop at 7k on your first analysis just to be safe. Wear seems to go exponential at the tail end of oil / filter life. Probably will never make a difference in the life of your engine... I'd just sleep better knowing before going the full 10k, especially if you wheel or have 33+ tires.
Up to you, but I'd probably stop at 7k on your first analysis just to be safe. Wear seems to go exponential at the tail end of oil / filter life. Probably will never make a difference in the life of your engine... I'd just sleep better knowing before going the full 10k, especially if you wheel or have 33+ tires.
Cool beans! Anxious to compare our results. I know I posted my trans fluid number but can't remember if I posted my oil results. Let's start a new 'results thread' when you get yours back. It would be cool to see a number of data points altogether.
That said, if it isn't obvious already I just have to say I don't get this fascination with pushing the oil to it's limits. At most a full synthetic change costs about 2/3 a tank of fuel. And even at 7k miles you'd only be doing it 2x per year. And it's one of the easiest PM's to do! To me it's just a nice feeling to know that it's done and clean and all happy inside.
I use 10k OCI (5k for filter) just for simplicity - I zeroed the intervals to the 10k mark on the ODO, so its easy to see when the time is coming. I've already posted my first UOA, but I'll post it again if someone starts a thread for that.
Well with the new filter technology your supposed to be able to go 15k for the interval. Amsoil is good stuff so I hope it stands up. I don't wheel the 100 much yet and I still have the stock tires. In the next two weeks my local dealership will be doing the transmission fluid exchange and I will grab a sample of my old fluid to send out. I also will be doing the diffs and and transfercase with with the 75-90 sever gear oil. I am thinking about grabbing a sample of the transferacse to send out as well.
To some extent I agree about running oil to 10, 12, or 15k as being a bad idea or a little scary. That said Amsoil developed this oil for the extended drain period and I believe in there engineering. Really my main concern running this long is the oil becoming sludgy. As long as the tbi or tba eh don't remember what it is called is still good then the oil is protecting the engine.
I agree that while the newer syns can go to 15k+, there is really no need to push those levels. I drive the hundy so little that I'll be lucky to see 5k in the current OCI. I'll pull a sample at the one year mark to see where the block is at and change it anyway for peace of mind. I'm running M1 AFE 0W-30, which is a good lube and fairly inexpensive at Wally World. Even if I drove 3x what I'm driving now, I'd still probably keep to a 10k max OCI. No reason to push it past that point IMO, unless you are doing it purely for research to see when the oil starts to break down.
I do the yearly with a long OCI (10-15k) using Mobil1 and the oil comes out looking great. Others who have done analysis have showed that it tests as good as it looks.
It's not the just good oil, the 100s have a water-cooled oil cooler, large sump and don't rev up much. They are extremely easy on oil.
As for sludge. Not a single case reported on the board.
Do change the power steering fluid though. It gets beat up pretty good.
