Posted by NCWayne on October 25, 2008 at 20:28:41 from (69.40.232.249):
In Reply to: engine oil posted by mikegpage on October 25, 2008 at 19:39:53:
In doing some research of my own several years back I discovered something I didn't know. Unless the guy that owned the machine before you used a straight weight oil then he was using a detergent oil. Fact is there isn't a non-detergent multi-viscosity oil made and sold in the US. I came about this discovery trying to find the "correct" oil to use in a piece of Komatsu equipment where the manual was saying to use a multi-viscosity oil in the hydraulic system. In my experience hydraulic systems, especially mobile ones, had always used a straight weight, non-detergent oil. Turns out nowdays the mfgs really don't care what you run.
That aside, in your case, if you use a detergent oil ands one wasn't previously used the only thing you might need to do is change the filter a little more often. If there is "crud" in the engine and it gets cleaned off by the detergent it will get trapped in the filter causing it to clog faster than it would if the engine was already "clean" inside. So drain it, change your filter, buy a good quality oil and don't worry about it.
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