AMSOIL makes an engine flush that they recommend for high mileage vehicle switchovers (cant remember what its called but any AMSOIL rep can tell you), and then they recommend you do the 1st oil change at 17,500 instead of 25k....after the 1st one its 25k from then on.

Also using the 0w-30 "Signature Series" (the 25k oil) will get the oil up in the engine quicker on cold starts, hopefully helping your ticking noise.

I have not used the bypass filter myself, but know someone that has one on their 1996 Dodge truck (5.2 liter v-8 gas motor) here locally and they NEVER change the oil, only the filter and send the oil out for testing. Oil is over 150k old and still going strong. Its pretty impressive, but I have just never been ambitious enough to go out and put one on my truck. For extreme high mileage drivers it would be great.
Also something that is on my to do list is switch my tranny fluid. Most vehicles will see the tranny temp drop 10-15 degrees by using AMSOIL in the tranny, and since heat is what cuts a tranny's life short....this keeps you out of the tranny shop for years.

Welcome tothe AMSOIL club, once you use it you will never go back to dino oil....

 

now texas cop theres something i have used there transmission fluid! Im not convinced on engine oil yet LOL

 

HEY I forgot to mention the ritual I do when changing my oil. As I'm adding my oil, I pick up a hand full of dirt and put it in the engine too. It helps quieten the engine too!

 

Ill have to try that!!! Lol

 

YES!! Someone gets my humor!

 

How often should i put the dirt oil additive in???

 

If you can't see it on your dipstick, put more in.

 

AHHHHHH!! lets see amsoil top that!!!!

 

Its all good suzuki...

they told Columbus the world was flat....

they told the Wright Brothers that men couldn't fly....

and they told you your oil HAD to be changed every 3000 miles....

 

And they tell you global warming is real.