2022 Ford E450 motor oil

[Dmarcian]

I have a new Jayco 27U and want to buy motor oil to carry with me. The manual says SAE 5-30 synthetic blend, is that what you guys use? Do I need to use Motorcraft or will any brand do? Do these motors use much oil between changes? Thanks

[LongFella]

Greet question (I shamelessly need the same info) [emoji1303]

[pconroy]

No you don't need a specific brand. Most (if not all) oils sold at reputable chain stores will meet or exceed the specifications.

Just match up the right weight. Mine's 5W-20. I use Mobil-1.

Calling out a favorite brand of oil is like wearing your NFL Team's colors - someone's gonna object and let you know about it.


Changing your oil and filter at the right intervals is a helluva lot more important than buying a brand.

[pconroy]

Originally Posted by Dmarcian

Do these motors use much oil between changes? Thanks

Mine doesn't, but I have the V-10.
I don't know if you have the new V8 or not.

Regardless - keeping an eye on the level is up to you. You need to monitor it until you get a sense of what your engine is doing.

[JimD]

My 2017 V10 uses that weight oil and doesn't appear to lose any. I feel that any good name brand oil will work. I was fortunate and bought some good Castrol full synthetic oil from Amazon. 5 quart jug for only $20. No preference for Castrol, the price was the factor.

[SmokeyBear]

I have a 1997 E-350, V10. It had 57k on it when I bought it in June. Just last week I had the oil changed at 62K. 5-30 synthetic. Don't know brand, I trust my mechanic. It did not use a drop of oil in that 5K.

It is wise of you to carry some oil for a few thousand miles, at least until the first oil change. It being new, it may still have some seals, gaskets, etc. that need to seal and may leak a little.

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by pconroy

Changing your oil and filter at the right intervals is a helluva lot more important than buying a brand.

Along with using the weight (5w30) that Ford recommends. Years back there were many failures due to too heavy a viscosity being used.

[Ttlanders]

I use the Motorcraft blend until warranty runs out!

[tom463219]

I have a 2016 V10 with 65000 miles. I change the oil at 5000 mile intervals. I have never had to add any oil between changes. Mobil 1 Full Synthetic, 5W30 since new. I get the used oil analyzed every oil change, always get a good report back.

[jyh818]

I have the 7.3L V8 gas engine. I use 5W-30 synthetic from Costco. Doesn't have to be Motorcraft oil. I do use the Motorcraft oil filter FL-820S. This filter is the same one used on the Triton V10.

[TWP723]

All the gas engines that year use the FL-820s and XO-5W30-Q1SP blend oil. I reckon you don't HAVE to use Motorcraft, but I would.

[Joey55]

I have the same engine and I use the Motorcraft oil and filters with an oil change every 5000 miles. You can just about always find the Motorcraft oil/filters at WalMart. As far as the weight just look on your oil filler cap and it will be there. Unless the engine has very high mileage it should not use any oil between changes but that doesn't mean you shouldn't check the level from time to time.
Also, if you can you might want to change the oil yourself. Look on youtube for videos showing the procedure.

[pconroy]

Motorcraft is good oil, but so are many, many others. You can google up for the "current" supplier behind Motorcraft and make up your mind from there.

[bucko]

Originally Posted by pconroy

No you don't need a specific brand. Most (if not all) oils sold at reputable chain stores will meet or exceed the specifications.

Just match up the right weight. Mine's 5W-20. I use Mobil-1.

Calling out a favorite brand of oil is like wearing your NFL Team's colors - someone's gonna object and let you know about it.


Changing your oil and filter at the right intervals is a helluva lot more important than buying a brand.

This.

[shoregrass]

I use full synthetic 5-30 in my 7.3 litre Ford. Seems OK so far.

[mjdcwo]

Mine is the 2021 V8 and I agree that the brand of oil is not important. Use the correct viscosity and maintain the correct change interval (or sooner). I don't put many miles on mine so I change it at the end of the season every year before I put it away for the winter although I may only have a few thousand miles on it. It's good insurance.

[kblast523]

Originally Posted by Dmarcian

I have a new Jayco 27U and want to buy motor oil to carry with me. The manual says SAE 5-30 synthetic blend, is that what you guys use? Do I need to use Motorcraft or will any brand do? Do these motors use much oil between changes? Thanks

It's a Grayhawk with a 7.3 Elephant motor. Motorcraft oil is packaged by Kendall, parent company is Phillips 66. Any of the major brands will do, the only thing Kendall has that Motorcraft doesn't is "Liquid Titanium" wear additive. I have a 2009 Mercury 4.6 that I saved at 233k miles with noisy timing chain at cold start by switching to Pennzoil 5w30 full synthetic. It was life-long Valvoline semi-synthetic vehicle and my mechanic suggested I switch because sounded to him like timing chain tensioners were 'bleeding down' over night. Switched to 5w30 Valvoline, no difference. Now with Pennz, it doesn't sound like you just ran over a tin can full of rocks when cold starting car. On that note, I've never had oil issues with any car using Valvoline, but in 2015 I switched to Kendall with like results.

[Wireman]

Originally Posted by Dmarcian

I have a new Jayco 27U and want to buy motor oil to carry with me. The manual says SAE 5-30 synthetic blend, is that what you guys use? Do I need to use Motorcraft or will any brand do? Do these motors use much oil between changes? Thanks

If your using a different brand besides Motorcraft, just make sure it meets Ford's oil specification which will be in your owners manual.

It will be listed on the back of the bottle on any brand you decide on.

My preference has always been Mobil 1 full synthetic.

[Johnynorthland]

Any name brand synthetic, at the correct weight will do.

But in my generator I only use Amsoil or Royal Purple, full synthetic and change once a year, regardless of run hours.

[bucko]

Originally Posted by tom463219

I have a 2016 V10 with 65000 miles. I change the oil at 5000 mile intervals. I have never had to add any oil between changes. Mobil 1 Full Synthetic, 5W30 since new. I get the used oil analyzed every oil change, always get a good report back.

If you change at 5K intervals, consider switching to a semi synthetic and save some money. Full synthetics are engineered to go at least to 8K intervals, so changing at 5K is tossing money away. Dyno (non synthetic) is good to 3K, semi-synthetic good to 5K, and full synthetic is good to 8 to 10K.

This is of course assuming you don't 4 wheel or drive in extreme dusty conditions.