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Re: Oil consumption and CAT failures
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 5/7/2008

The comment "approved oil" got me thinkiing, so I went and pulled out an '01 owner's manual to get Toyota's exact wording. Here's the quote regarding oil specification from the manual:

"ENGINE OIL SELECTION Use API grade SJ, "Energy-Conserving" (Toyota's quo... Login to read more.