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Old 09-30-2016, 08:32 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by JFP in PA View Post
People often overlook the fact that diesels do not use catalytic converters like gas engines, and continue to use high ZDDP concentrations because of the bearing loads created by tier much higher cylinder pressures. They also tend to have higher detergency additive packages as well.
Would you care to expand on this? Are you implying my cat is likely to fail prematurely if I'm burning some oil?

Will the additional detergents give me issues?
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