Really - D U M B - Engine Design !!

[Travelover]

Just save that fraction of a quart from every oil change. Eventually you will have enough for a "free" oil change.

 

[TomSeller]

Lately I have been taking my cars to Walmart for their up to 5 qt $47 Mobil1 oil and filter change. I still do the truck and tractors of course, but that price is hard to pass up.

 

[CADplans]

Lately I have been taking my cars to Walmart for their up to 5 qt $47 Mobil1 oil and filter change. I still do the truck and tractors of course, but that price is hard to pass up.

That is a VERY reasonable price,, I would pay that IF I could see the jug being dumped in the engine.,

I use a place to do mechanical (brakes, power steering pumps, etc,,)
they use one 55 gallon drum of oil for ALL oil changes.

They offer no choice of synthetic, or specific weight.
they said 99% of customers never ask what the oil is.

 

[CalG]

That is a VERY reasonable price,, I would pay that IF I could see the jug being dumped in the engine.,

I use a place to do mechanical (brakes, power steering pumps, etc,,)
they use one 55 gallon drum of oil for ALL oil changes.

They offer no choice of synthetic, or specific weight.
they said 99% of customers never ask what the oil is.

Nor does it truly matter, so long as it's "good" oil.

All this "Ford is better than Chevy", "Pensoil is better than Chevron" BS is just that, BS!

Change oil and filter every 4-5K, keep up between changes, and the engine will out live YOU!

Please, Show of hands from ANYONE that has had a lubrication related engine FAILURE due to oil Qualities! PLEASE! EVEN ONE!

What NO ONE???? ..................................Low oil levels do NOT count.

I run "Store brand" 10-40 in everything but the two cycles. That is no less than 31 "piston/cylinders plus 2 rotors.

Over 500 K combined miles and thousands of off road hours.

Give it a break. "The Best OIL", DOESN'T matter.

 

[CADplans]

Nor does it truly matter, so long as it's "good" oil.

All this "Ford is better than Chevy", "Pensoil is better than Chevron" BS is just that, BS!

Change oil and filter every 4-5K, keep up between changes, and the engine will out live YOU!

Give it a break. "The Best OIL", DOESN'T matter.

My issue is the car manufacturer specifies synthetic, 0W-20 weight,,,
and
the oil change interval is 10,000 miles.

If you use conventional (non-synthetic) oil, and change every 10,000 miles,
enough fuel mileage reduction will occur to have paid for the synthetic oil.

I am willing to play the manufacturers 10K oil change game,,
I just wish the oil pan would have been sightly larger.

That extra 0.4 quart may have upped the oil change to 11,000 miles

:laughing:

:thumbsup:

 

[4570Man]

I run a 2 quart tolerance. I can't imagine .4 quart being a big deal. An incline would change the oil level significantly more.

 

[CADplans]

I run a 2 quart tolerance. I can't imagine .4 quart being a big deal. An incline would change the oil level significantly more.

I use a minus 1-2 quart tolerance on my ten quart capacity diesel,,

These new engines have so many sensors,, the car might email my wife if I over-fill,,,

 

[CalG]

I use a minus 1-2 quart tolerance on my ten quart capacity diesel,,

These new engines have so many sensors,, the car might email my wife if I over-fill,,,

Yup!

The AR type are rewards to themselves. ;-)

Tell the e-mail sender to FO!

 

[s219]

Now that I have so many engines to maintain I am keenly aware of oil levels, and I think there is too much variability to even trust the quoted numbers. What if Honda made it an even 5 quarts? I bet that number would only be true under some ideal condition.

I had to change the lower unit gear oil on my outboard motor recently, and Yamaha quoted "1.03 quarts" as the replacement amount. If anybody can do a change accurate to 0.03 quarts, let me know! More likely is that they converted from some metric number and kept too many decimal places to matter. Anyhow, I could only get in slightly less than 1 quart (with engine vertical as instructed) before it dribbled out the top opening. I am sure there was a little of the old gear oil left down in the prop shaft hub area of the case that would have drained if I played with the motor trim angle and waited long enough, but I was doing this work from an inflatable raft under the boat hanging on a lift and I wasn't in the mood for games.... I figure I put in at least 0.95 quarts and that was obviously close enough according to gravity and the laws of physics.

 

[/pine]

I know exactly what you're talking about. We used the same 'system' on the farm for those old metal quart cans.

Here's a google image of a store bought modern version.

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Terry

That is pretty darn cool IMO...!