engine oil analysis sample?

[snowracer69]

I ordered the Fleetguard oil analysis kit from Geno's, but I don't think it's going to be here in time tomorrow for me to do it when I drop my oil (and my oil IS being changed tomorrow, as I leave at 4 am thurs for school again), so my plan is to take the sample and put it in a 20 oz. water bottle (aquafina to be exact) and have my Dad fill the sample container and send it off.



Since I've not taken a sample before, what is the best way to do it? Can I just stick the bottle into the draining stream of oil while it's running into a catch pan? Does it need to be sucked out of the dipstick tube?



This oil will have almost 9000 miles on it, with Fleetguard stratopore filters used and changed at the 5k mark... with my 100,523 mile engine now, and ~450RWHP it should be interesting to see what the results are.



Oh, running Schaeffer's Series 7000 15w-40 synthetic.



Josh

 

[WNowlan]

It is never a good idea to put the oil in anything other than the container they send you.



With that being said.



Make sure the bottle is clean and dry. Have the engine at operating temp, open the drain plug, count to three, take sample. You then need to make sure the sample is sent to the lab asap.



One oil sample is not going to provide much information though. You can tell certain things, feul delution, silicon (dirt), TBN or TAN, Wear metals, Glycol and such.



To really know what is going on we will need a trend. You should sample at every oil change to gather useful data.



Post the results online and I will help decifier what is going on.

 

[Tony T.]

Oil Sampling Kit

I have noticed other post where someone has ordered a oil sample kit. Blackstone Labs will send you one for free. I got mine that way an they will be sending addtional kits when I receive the sample results. I got mine at www.bobistheoilguy.com (Blackstone Lab ad).