Posted by Bob Huntress on February 26, 2008 at 20:35:19 from (72.155.213.128):
In Reply to: Re: best motor oil? posted by RobMD on February 26, 2008 at 19:43:07:
I have found that more than what brand of oil is the actual grades and features. For newer equipment, I tend to use the recommended 10w30 for gas and 15w40 for diesel. I have no heartach with the synthetic, though I change my oil too frequently to appreciate it's resistance to breakdown. Some of the gear that I run is fifty years old, and I doubt that anyone has ever rebuilt the engine. Consider my 8N Ford. I use a 20w50 to help compensate for what must be well worn bearings. The two big factors that I use in considering which oil viscosity grade is the amount of wear, and the expected operating temp. The more the wear, and the higher the expected operating temp, the heavier the oil that I prefer. Detergent is another feature that comes to mind, even more so now that it's cold out. While the detergent is marketed as helping to keep your oil passages clean, it also emulsifies small amounts of inevitable condensation that comes from an engine sitting idle during the winter months. To recommend an oil, I would need to know what type of engine, atleast whether it's gas or diesel, how old it is, what operating conditions you expect to operate in. I'll tell you what my old A school instructor would tell us, "Bad oil is better than no oil". Now, I don't recommend that you neglect your oil changes, or that you put oil into your tractor, that you feel is poor quality, but I wouldn't worry much about which brand of oil you use. By the way, be cautious regarding oil flushing your equipment. If you regularly mix an oil flush and run it through yopur equipment, since it is new, that's not bad. The problem with oil flushing starts when we attempt to flush an engine that has been neglected. Sludge and particles that are adhered to the walls of oil passages tend to become cleaned off the surfaces, and lodged in places that restrict oil flow.
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