[AT] Engine oil

Sun Aug 16 12:51:37 PDT 2020

 Any one remember Amalie Oil.  Better than it has to be.  The problem is it was just a smidgen better than bare minimum standards. 

My first car was purchased from my dads boss.  He drove 5 miles a day and changed the oil every 3000 miles. It looked great.  I started having problems so I pulled the oil pan.  There must have been 10 lbs of sludge.  I pulled the engine apart and cleaned it up.  Put it back together and drive it several years until I was rear ended by a pickup truck. I never used Amalie oil again. 

That is about the time people realized how bad Amalie oil was.   I still a couple paper cans of Amalie oil in my shop. 

    On Sunday, August 16, 2020, 1:58:02 PM CDT, Bruce Fallon <bfallon at whidbey.com> wrote:  

I find the Pennzoil commercials interesting as originally Pennzoil was advertised years ago a made with pure Pennsylvania crude oil  then eventually it went to pure Pennsylvania grade crude oil and now it is made with natural gas. 

Bruce Fallon

Langley, WA 98260

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John, list members, 

A tangent to this conversation, something I inherited from my father... not sure if it is a superstition or has some validity..??? but I just try to never change the brand of the oil in my autos and tractors.  I can remember us buying an used 1950 Buick way back when, my Dad asked what brand of oil was in it, ..Quaker State, and that was what we used, anyway, too bad that your Exxon oil became hard to find.  Just curious if any list members also hate to change brands of oil?   It doesn't apply here, but for sure I have seen leakage and usage in situations where there was a switch to synthetic oil.  

John in Ferndale

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From: John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
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Sent: Sat, Aug 15, 2020 9:57 am
Subject: [AT] Engine oil

What this group needs (in my opinion) is a good farm equipment discussion.

Engine Oil--but wait, this isn't your ordinary oil discussion!!! Long 

story short, I have a fleet of old gas powered working FARM 

equipment--not talking about lawn equipment. We have always ran big name 

brand oil. I switched from Exxon Super HDII about 3-4 years ago because 

it was getting really hard to source. I switched over to Chevron Dello 

400 (both are 30W). The Dello is formulated for diesels, but supposedly 

works in older gas engines. I now have 2 engines that drink oil when 

being worked hard. My Farmall M can drop 2-3 qts in a couple hours of 

pulling a cultimulcher--yet you don't really notice it smoking. It does 

foul plugs. That work is a very heavy load. Also I have a 3300 Deere 

combine that will drop a qt or so every truckload of corn. Now I've only 

had this combine about 8 years and the oil consumption just started 

about 3 years ago--I swear some days it is worse than others. I really 

wonder if its the oil I'm using. I have on hand some CaseIH low-ash oil 

I run in lawnmowers--considering putting it in the combine for this 

fall. Supposedly the same stuff IH has been selling for 40+ years. The 

cost is about $3-4 more a quart, so an extra $25 to change oil. For the 

record, the rest of the gas powered fleet doesn't run hard/long enough 

to notice a problem. The combine is such a gas hog, can't help but 

wonder if its a fuel issue causing dilution.

What you guys think, worth a shot?

John Hall

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