What are the symptoms of the TCT going bad?

 

Run a search, also check youtube for videos on it. its a loud rapid "playing card hiting the spokes of a bicycle wheel" sound. Billman has explained this very well

 

interesting, it seems that the only particular pattern that has emerged on these boards suggesting TCT failure and oil brand have any sort of connection indicates that Mobil 1 is theoretically the oil most prone to "cause" the issue, if that makes any sense.

The overall suggestion by the camp blaming oil for TCT failure seems to be to switch to Amsoil, ironically enough.

Then again, all of those theories have more or less dissipated since Billman (through his diligent and much-appreciated research) has determined that the worm gear is the underlying issue.

edit - whoops, kinda botched up the quote. oh well.

 

Im going to start running Valvoline Racing oil or Brad Penn Racing oil starting my next oil change

 

i run amsoil and havent had a tct failure in 58k miles. nearly every single tct thread i've read on this forum involves the person running mobil1 oil.

back when i had about 20k miles or so, i couldn't get my hands on amsoil and i needed an oil change bad so i put in mobil 1 synthetic. a strange (possibly tct) noise appeared on startup, but the moment i switched back to amsoil it was gone again.

 

Amsoil is one of the best oils out on the market, mobile 1 is one of the worst

Im gonna try this "sand blasting" tomorrow except im just gonna use sand paper lol

 

is mobile 1 synthetic really that bad?

 

This is good to know. But unfortunately this is my experience. Many issues with people using Amsoil.. So what is this "sandblasting thing?" How do you do it?

 

I had it bad and I was running Syntec at the time - the Mobil one element is a consistent one, but its certainly not the only oil that "causes" the problem.

 

is it only a consistent one because so many people use it?