Posted by The tractor vet on January 28, 2021 at 09:09:21 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Re: Marathon oil posted by JayinNY on January 27, 2021 at 23:13:09:
Ah i have seen catastrophic engine failure on a large scale . Back in 1970 i had just take over a Chrysler Plymouth dealership parts dept. and since it was a new place we were just really getting things rolling . I had a HUGE amount of room for LOTS of parts , had a huge SERVICE DEPT WITH ROOM FOR 14 TECH WITH EACH HAVING A DEAD STALL AND A LIFT STALL Huge body shop with a brand new state of the art paint booth and bake oven and room for ten bodyman . One of the local Oil dist. approached us about installing over head lube racks at each lift bay and since i had so much room they would install BULK tanks for oils grease and antifreee in Bulk with a NEW fangled computer controlled metering system and printer that would print out and price the product on the wro's and Ro's with and inter com system between each station . and what the owner liked was with not cost to him as long as we used there products . At the time the standard in the industry was the 10-30 for cars and light trucks , some guys ran a 20-40 and even a 20-50 in there performance engines . They installed a 500 gallon one for the 10-30 a 500 gal for ATF 500 for anti freeze and a bank of 55 gallon drums for chassis grease and 250 for gear oil and two 250's for the RACING oil . This one company had all the MO PAR dealers locked in and one of the other oil dist. had the local Ford and GM dealers locked in . We started seeing massive engine problems after the second load of Bulk oil , not just us but all the MO PAR GUYS . But just on the 10-30 . I will not say who's oil this was but lets just say it was a Pa. based company . It was not just the Bulk oil it was the same in the Qt. cans . and not just or area it was wide spread we started to find out . Our factory rep took samples from all of use that were on the bulk deal and in three days we all got a call from the factory to stop usen that oil The oil company got sued . In 77 i went and bought my own semi and after the second oil change mine started sucking oil big time as i had switched brands on the second change and before i had 35000 miles on it it had to be rebuilt . The inside of that NTC 350 looked like it had 700000 miles on it . Bearings were into the copper liners were scored cam shaft and followers had to be replaced new heads were installed due to valve and guide ware but the crank was still good . It was the OIL and that oil came from a company in Texas. So yes i have seen engine failures over engine oils.
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