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Originally Posted by kimiraikkonen
From the latest Blackstone oil sample:
"The vast majority of wear metals look great at 107,738 miles, but nickel is a bit high. Typically, we don't pay a whole lot of attention to nickel as it's normally just an alloying metal or perhaps a coating of some sort, but the S65 normally doesn't leave a whole lot of nickel in the oil, so this 5 ppm does stick out. That said, the other metals, including lead from the bearings, look great, so let's just wait and see how nickel looks next time. After all, 5 ppm is not a lot of metal in the grand scheme of things. The TBN is fine at 5.3. Good report overall."
What's the feedback on nickel content for our S65 engines?
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I'm not sure, that is kinda weird. Nickel is used in bearing coatings, but I'm not sure if the S65's have any. It's also an alloy for valves, the crankshaft, and camshaft in some cars. Again, not sure where the S65 used nickel.
In previous analyses, did you have any nickel show up? If you don't have any previous reports, I would just keep driving and monitor things. If the nickel is elevated from last time, I would watch closely on the next one.