Re: H/ Rotella Oil?

Posted by Mark on December 24, 2006 at 19:58:19 from (172.165.0.115):

In Reply to: Re: H/ Rotella Oil? posted by MikeinKy on December 24, 2006 at 16:11:37:

MikeinKy,

I live in Greenup County and spent 27 years as a railroad engineer for CSX. I worked around the locomotive shops for many of those years. They had a lab on the pit where the engines were serviced and the oil was NEVER changed in those locomotives..EVER. They take an oil sample everytime the engine comes on the pit and it gets analyzed. They check for water content, bearing material, fuel contamination, etc. If any of these things show up..it reveals the health of the diesel engine. Those engines use a lot of oil and they always being topped up...which adds fresh oil (new additives) and that's just how it is. These are multimillion dollar machines and they get top maintinence...but that doesn't require frequent oil changes. Anyway, the chemist in the lab analyzed several different branded motor oils one day to see what the difference was between them. Not enough to amount to any difference. if brand A contained 2% of a certain additive..brand B contained 2.5% and so forth. They are basically formulated the same. The conclusion was to buy whatever was on sale and forget the brand. Just change it regularly. I have gone to pure synthetics because I hate to change oil. I change mine once a year regardless of the mileage. Works for me. I do keep John Deere brand oil in my new JD tractor because it's under warranty...when it runs out...I'll feed it Rotella. I'll not give them any reason to renege on the warranty if the engine lets go.

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