found a use for some new but old oil

My father in law cleaned out some things from his garage a few years ago, including 2 paper cans of oil. One was 30 weight, the other 10w-30. I just picked up a 1968 John Deere 140 2 weeks ago and was changing all the fluid in it and finding the grease zerks. I was out of my normal supplies, so I made a joke in the top with a screw driver and put it in. I figure vintage oil won't hurt a vintage engine, and now I have that shelf space again. Engine only held 1 1/2 quarts, so the rest I poured into an empty oil bottle and marked it for what was in it.

Now if only I had a use for the filters he gave me.... all for older gm cars with metric threads. Nothing I own or work on even had the same threads, so I just plain can't use them. Yet....

Donovan from Wisconsin

Good use of the oil . As for the filters, go to a filter web site.
Most of them have a on-line cross reference, check and see what else they may fit.
You might find a use after all, know someone who might.

Personally I think I would have held on to the paper cans,unopened, they are getting highly
collectible. They bring from 10 to 30 dollars a quart depending on the brand. I have a few
myself.

They're all gm, that much I know. Not sure exactly what though. All Fram filters so maybe I'd be doing someone a favor by just chucking them...

Donovan from Wisconsin[/code]

Maybe it's just me, and paranoia takes over, but I was always afraid of using an old oil filter on anything. Even ones I had purchased and forgot to use or misplaced only to find it later. I was concerned that the element may have decomposed and might come apart. No, never seen it happen, but I have had old lawnmower filters start coming apart on the shelf in my shop. Might have been bugs or something helping as well.

On old oil, sounds good to me, as long as it's kinda stirred a bit. Moving it around would do that. That's another thing too. I had some old cardboard oil cans that started leaking while sitting on the back of a shelf in an old freezer that had been used for storage. Freezer didn't work any more....Maybe some condensation helped it along, but it sure was a mess by the time it was discovered.

I also found a case of LPS lubricant in aerosol cans that had all lost their pressure. After making sure there was indeed no pressure in the cans, I drilled holes in the bottom and drained them so I could still get the oil out of them. Put it in mason jars and later used it in little squeeze type oil cans with spouts on them.

(quoted from post at 07:17:47 05/14/16) ..............the back of a shelf in an old freezer that had been used for storage. Freezer didn't work any more...........

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I've got one like that that I use for storing my reloading equipment; keeps the dust off.

Look at the price of the old paper cans on ebay. You can sell them full or empty as long as you emptied them with a tiny hole (like a small nail hole) on the bottom. I don't think those that had a spout pushed into the top are worth much.

Another use for old or questionable oil is
to use it in your oil bath air filter.
I was offered an unopened 2 1/2 gallon jug
of 30 w non detergent oil. I took it to use
in my air cleaner. Use it in my squirt can
too.

Of all that I saw on eBay, only one actually had a bid. The rest are all sitting there, indefinitely, waiting for some guy to buy it who just has to have one of the most common brands out there. The cans were starting to rust top and bottom, figured wouldn't be too long before they started to leak.

Could I have sold them? Maybe, but it sure wouldn't have been a quick sale. Market is flooded with collectables now a days.

Donovan from Wisconsin