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Re: Re: Would 15W40 be too heavy for my H??
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 23, 2004 at 03:20:10 from (216.208.58.122):
In Reply to: Re: Would 15W40 be too heavy for my H?? posted by Don on February 22, 2004 at 20:47:56:
Don: Don't listen to vehicle manufacturers, the premature end of engines is what keeps them in business. 30 years ago I was running close to a dozen engines with three types of oil on hand at all times. Coupled with this I had what you call employees. I discovered that the chart I had in my shop for oil use in various vehicles was not being followed consistantly. I approached my oil supplier and wanted to see the specs on every oil he sold. I took this info home with me and studied it. He was not even selling me the oil recomended for 3 diesels I owned. When I confronted him with this he advised Esso series 3 oil was only for severe service in diesels. I asked what he considered severe service. His reply," dozers, forestry skidders, etc. " I said,"That is interesting, a dozer spends half it's life backing up under no load, skidder spends half its life going back into the bush empty, yet my farm tractors are loaded 95% of the time." I took home a supply of his best diesel engine oil, single viscosity at that time and used 30 in summer and 20 in winter. About 10 years later I switched to 15 - 40 in the same oil and never looked back. I have never had a car or pickup engine that didn't give 250.000 miles of service. As of 2004 that includes 4 cars, 4 pickups, 2 larger trucks and the lawn mower. I believe I am well above the average on hours of service with pickups and cars. I can take you to a dozen other people with the same results. I probably have on my farm logged a 100,000 hours on tractor, combine, skid loaders and other engines with exceptional results.
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