[Farmall] low ash oil

[john hall]

Thanks for the input guys. For now I'll stick with the low ash IH oil as I 
have about a 3 year supply. I talked to a fellow this afternoon that is a 
big fan of the IH diesel oil, I think it is No. 1, he buys it by the drum. 
We used to sell quite a bit of IH oil at the dealership, but only in 
quarts---didn't have any customers using it in their fleet, just the ones 
using it in their Cades or folks having only 1 tractor. I don't know if that 
oil helped those engines last longer or if those owners that were picky 
about the oil were also picky about everything else concerning the machine 
resulting in a better maintained machine. I heard a fellow swear one Sat. 
morning that if he used anything beside IH low ash 30 W in his Cadet it 
would burn oil--I just wrote up the ticket and asked what else he needed!

I'm pretty positive all oils are of better quality now than in years past 
given the different additives and refinement processes. We've used Exxon 
Super HD 30W here on the farm ever since we could no longer get Phillips 
equivalent. Engine trouble was something we never had a problem with and we 
dumped that stuff in everything except cars.

John Hall