I can honestly say the only vehicle I owned that used oil was a 98 Durango and it was the Plenum but I said screw it. Then I got a bearing knock. Ok does get black. What I do is I clean my engines every summer (I live in PA) which helps, but oil does turn black which doesn't mean it's bad. They used to have a billboard up here saying if your oil is black it's time to change it :')

 

Yeah, if I replaced my oil every time it got black, I'd be changing oil every 1000/1500 miles, lol!!!

 

Same here lol! Just a little story for time sake my 96 360 drive 35 miles with no oil in her and still tuning today.

 

Remember the stupid cash for clunkers gov. deal? The way they "destroyed" vehicles was to drain oil and run them til seized. Many rams died during the holocaust but stories emerged how they couldn't kill magnums by just draining oil. Had to add sand and crap to finally get them seized. It was fun reading ten years ago.

 

And a fair few of those 'clunkers' that were supposedly destroyed, got put on ships to the Middle East, and were sold at a significant profit......

 

Wondered how 2nd gens got on CNN in Kabul

 

The thing I hate about the 2nd gens are they were forgotten (even when new). Nobody makes any sits off road stuff for them that's why I have to make everything. Nobody makes tuners or turbo/supercharger kits. Which in my opinion is stupid. You want to go off road and 99% of people aren't going to take a new truck so they'll but a cheap 2nd gen and beat the **** out of it. So why not make stuff for it. Yes there is Dodge off road but they are rip-offs and expensive. There is custom but again expensive. Rant over 😂

 

There's a ton of aftermarket stuff for our trucks, including tuners, superchargers, lifts, etc. What are you talking/ranting about???

 

Slow down there Tex..... :-) Every engine will use some oil, some more than others. The newer engines are actually expected to burn a quart between changes, strange as it seems. All engines have an "acceptable usage" amount. That being said, Yes, there are engines that don't burn oil, there are engines that drink it. I consider a quart between changes quite acceptable, even for new engines, granted, they usually run between 6-7 thousand miles between changes(gone are the days of 3 months, 3000 mile oil changes) A quart every thousand is excessive. If you pull into a gas station and fill your oil and check your gas, you have a problem.

Or, like an old chevy I worked on, stop every 1000 miles and drain some oil....then add transmission fluid(yes, that's what the guy did-the vac valve on the trans went bad, and would suck trans fluid into the engine) He drove it that way for years.....weird dude. 20 bucks fixed it right up. To this day I'm amazed the motor never blew.

 

Because it was cleaned while lubricated! Trans oil is the old way of de-sludging an engine. Old timers would dump it in, run it, drain, and refill with oil.