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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TulsaMike" data-source="post: 4203695" data-attributes="member: 49625">I run Castrol synthetic 5w30 and did the Melling performance pump with 10% more pressure. I was extremely impressed with how good my engine looked on the tear down. All 16 lifters had perfect wear patterns, bearings looked good, and no issues with any internals. It took me 3 months to find a 1 owner truck with maintenance records, but I’m glad I was patient. If I can get another 50k out of this truck problem free, I will be a happy camper. This thing cost me a bit up front with needing new shocks/struts, fluids, and my OCD with having to over maintain everything and always replace it with better parts, but I’m really happy with it now.Before I got out of the performance industry about 15 years ago, we were on the start of the “I can do it myself and watch YouTube videos”, which I think is where a lot of these issues come from. People aren’t technicians anymore, nor able to troubleshoot actual problems, so they just ask on forums what to do, from others with the same online based knowledge, and it’s the blind leading the blind. There is a stark difference between replacing parts by watching a video, and actually understanding how the parts work and installing new stuff as needed.</blockquote>