[AJD] 35 D

Gary Epps garyepps at fidnet.com
Thu Jul 1 22:02:52 PDT 2004


Preferences on which oil to use seem to be running pretty even between 30wt
an 15w40.  Tomorrow I finish a final cleaning and start putting it back
together.  It will be good to hear her run.

Gary
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Treimer" <steelerhawk at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique John Deere mailing list"
<antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [AJD] 35 D


> Gary,
> I hate to say that I've never heard of anyone using straight 40 & 50
> weight oils.  I can't find anyone to provide a better alternative than
> using a quality 15w40 oil given that how many millions of miles are run
> on this weight oil by our oil the road truck drivers every day.  The
> 15w40 is probably only good down to 20 degrees or so (need my handy
> chart here), but like you said, it's probably just a 3 season tractor
> anyway.  The only use I have for straight 30 weight oil is in my push
> lawn mower that only runs in hot weather and would have a little more
> blowby with a lighter oil.  In my 420 lawn mower, I run 15w40, change
> it and I'm impressed with how well it works for all my needs.
> Steve Treimer
> Iowa City
 >





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