Re: Oil again

Posted by txgrn on February 10, 2006 at 07:37:04 from (209.151.119.151):

In Reply to: Re: Oil again posted by bradk on February 09, 2006 at 17:22:18:

Hi Brad,

I should have apologized as I was totally ashamed of myself. I figured the best thing to do was to just leave. Sometimes you need to stay away from the keyboard and that happened to be one of those times.

Oil is a big deal for a lot of folks, witnessed by the amount of traffic on here concerning the subject. It is a big deal for me and I spend a lot of time fooling around with the subject. I won't bore you with the details, but I have a lot of various types of equipment and would really like to have only one oil on the place that I could use in everything.

Hence the pursuit, but it's futile. Like I just bought a new Dodge 1500 with a 4.7 engine. Got on the www and read an article about the design of the engine, and in it I picked up on the fact that the oil pump was specially designed to pump 5w-30; said to use nothing else; as does the owners manual. You know I'm not going to put that in my tractors.

Have had tons of discussions on here about "what the book says" about oils to use. These manuals were written when oil was in it's infancy. Times have changed, as has petroleum technology, and we as consumers need to be aware of that and act accordingly.

Now, is it any of my business what you use for oil? No. But I think this site is for us to attempt to help one another so I butt in to other people's business.

On the PhD in petroleum, I figured that if a person with registered knowledge of the subject got on here and set the record straight we'd all be wiser and folks would tend to accept what was said.

So, to answer your question, no I'm not starting another rowl.....but the Rotella Syn at Wally's is really worth checking out.... And for $14 a gallon?

Have a great day,

Mark

Replies:

• Re: Oil again bradk 16:15:18 02/13/06 (1)
  • Re: Oil again EDDIEMO 14:22:08 04/17/06 (0)

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