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I recently came across this in-depth video on engine wear, lubrication, and temperature. He starts talking about pre-filling oil filters (good, bad, indifferent), but the latter portion is more about the hard science empirical data around wear. Long story short: cold engines incur the most piston ring wear, so warm up your engine quickly, but don't lug it.


The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_Gt0yPlO0&t=1798s
The good stuff on SAE and GM wear analysis starts at 34:00, but start from the beginning if you can as there's useful information along the way.

I've spent way too much time watching the oil videos on there. That's some good info. The Motor oil geek guy is the master, if you want to go way down the rabbit holes. Biggest lesson from all of them: Change out dirty oil and often.

You can have the oil in your Pinzgauer analyzed at Blackstone Laboratories, Google it. For $40 they will give you a complete breakdown of all the chemicals and metals in the oil, which is an indication of wear.

Agreed. I send all my oil changes off to Blackstone. Well, not for the lawnmower. But for all land and air vehicles. Fabulous info. And their write-ups are pretty entertaining.