Posted by Charlie Biler x on March 06, 2010 at 21:37:38 from (64.201.85.120):
In Reply to: Re: OIL in tractors posted by sotxbill on March 06, 2010 at 20:34:59:
soxtbill, Come on up here and sit beside me. We both heartily agree. You can now take your lumps with me.
First I want to hear about that brand of motorcycle oil that still carries all that nasty zinc and phosphorous. That tickles my fancy. Later we can go install a dpf filter on a few politicians.
I just have one slight difference of opinion. I stubbornly refuse to use 5w-whatever for any application. I have seen too many good blower engines trashed from that stuff. With our nasty cold weather I am pouring my 15w-40 Rotella in blower engines that are running on the governor for many tankfuls a day. One neighbor just blew his blower engine from a diet of 5w-whatever. His crank seized, and I laughed at him. I assisted in doing the engine swap and I filled the new crankcase with my flavor of oil. The neighbor has changed oil in that blower twice since the engine swap. He has been using 15w-40 Rotella. She may turn hard on startup, but at full throttle, she keeps turning real nice.
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Today's Featured Article - What Oil Should I Use? - by Francis Robinson. I keep seein this question pop up over and over again in discussion groups all over the web. As with many things there are often several right answers and a few wrong ones. Some purist I'm sure will disagree to no end with what I will tell you but most of us out here in the real world don't really care do we ? Some of them only bring their noses down out of the air long enough to look down them anyway. If you are like me you are only doing this old tractor stuff because you enjoy it. You
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