[AT] Oil for COLD weather - Cub Cadet

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This should ball park it, Roy.  Motorcraft may be the least expensive at WallyWorld.

Semi-synthetic oil
Semi-synthetic oils (also called 'synthetic blends') are blends of
mineral oil with no more than 30% synthetic oil. Designed to have many
of the benefits of synthetic oil without matching the cost of pure
synthetic oil. Motul introduced the first semi-synthetic motor oil in
1966.
Lubricants which have synthetic base stocks even lower 30%, high
performance additive packs consisting of esters can also be considered
as synthetic lubricants. Ratio of the synthetic base stock is generally
used to define commodity codes among the customs declarations of tax
purposes.

> From: k1lky at earthlink.net
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:23:33 -0500
> Subject: [AT] Oil for COLD weather - Cub Cadet
> 
> 
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> 
> > ... That synthetic oil is good for small engines. The Kohler 16 hp  
> > on one of my
> > grain augers has had 0w30 in it for several years and I think it helps
> > starting. Certainly would give better lubrication on startup. That  
> > 10w30 is
> > like molasses on a morning like this.
> 
> I will be running the Cub Cadet for blowing snow. (I Finally got the  
> thing assembled, and promptly broke the lift arm!)
> 
> So I would be wise to use synthetic oil in that Kohler 20 HP engine.   
> The manual says that you can use synthetic oil but do not extend the  
> time between oil changes.  What is semi-synthetic oil?  Any  
> recommended brand(s)?
> 
> An odd thing happened. I had checked the oil and run the engine for a  
> few minutes, then added oil up to "full" on the dipstick.  Got a  
> little too much in and read on the dipstick: "Do not overfill" so I  
> drained a bit out the bottom of the engine.  The oil on the dipstick  
> was clean and the oil coming out of the drain tube was thick and  
> black, and ran very slowly.  (This engine has a short piece of rubber  
> hose with the drain plug on the end of the hose.  Makes it easier to  
> drain the crank case.)
> 
> How can that be???
> 
> I also added TSC universal transmission/hydraulic oil to the fluid  
> drive unit to bring it up to full (it took about 6 ounces to do  
> that.)  That stuff moved like molassas.  Temperature was just below  
> freezing today in the barn where I was working.
> 
> Roy
> 
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
> 529 Cobb St.
> Groton NY, 13073
> 
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