Best oil to reduce piston slap. ?
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Best oil to reduce piston slap. ?
I do lots of short journeys too and fro work, and my piston slap (forged pistons), is really beginning to get on my nerves. Anyone had some good experience for using a different oil to help reduce this ?.
I am thinking perhaps a thicker synethic oil might help 15W 40 or there could be an argument to use a really thin oil to get to rings quicker. Even when my car is hot, piston slap is still there (just).
I could just put up with it, but the right oil should dramatically help reduce I would have thought, and I am only looking to make up 0000's of an inch.
Any experience / advice greatly appreciated.
I am thinking perhaps a thicker synethic oil might help 15W 40 or there could be an argument to use a really thin oil to get to rings quicker. Even when my car is hot, piston slap is still there (just).
I could just put up with it, but the right oil should dramatically help reduce I would have thought, and I am only looking to make up 0000's of an inch.
Any experience / advice greatly appreciated.
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I very much doubt changing oil will reduce the noise from piston slap. I suspect you will just have to put up with it, until you can drive in such a way as to get much more heat into the pistons.
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