Re: rotella 15-40 in an H

Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 20, 2007 at 02:55:20 from (216.208.58.178):

In Reply to: rotella 15-40 in an H posted by RMO/MN on May 19, 2007 at 21:02:40:

RMO: I wouldn't fault the Rotella 15W-40, Shell still probably make it in a 30W version if feel compelled to try it. I'd stay with the top grade diesel motor oil personally. 35 years ago I had three grades of oil on the farm; one for diesel tractors, one for gas tractors and one cars and trucks. I found employees were in some cases using the wrong oil, and decided the best way to cure this was have one oil for all.

I was using Esso at the time thus went with their series 3 oil, same specs as Rotella. Initially I used 30W in summer and 20 for winter. This included every thing from a 455 Olds, Chevy pickups, skid loaders, gas Farmalls, diesel Farmalls and a 4 cycle lawn mower. Over the years since I've had exceptional results. I switched to 15W-40 about 10 years later. The lawn mower was around until last year, never had a diesel tractor need a rebuild under 10,000 hours, gas 4,000 hours.

When I first switched my Esso dealer told me this oil was only needed for severe service diesels like heavy construction equipment. I said,"I know what you mean, a bulldozer spends half it's day backing with no load, even pushing they seldon use full rated hp, while my 656 and 560 often spend all day under full load, at rated hp." Put it this way, I feel good oil has saved my big money over the years, but regularly scheduled oil and filter changes are just as important.

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