Amsoil HD 5W40?

[BlacknTan]

I just paid $22 a gallon for Mobil Delvac 1, 5W40 full synthetic... A pretty good deal through my local NAPA.

 

[Robin Veerman]

I mostly use Rotella 5-40 T6 because it can be had on sale pretty cheap and I use my drain oil to heat my shop anyway.

I use AMSOIL because I think that it is a top notch oil, and I have done so for probably 25 years or more. Several years ago I had accumulated a quantity of used oil (AMSOIL) and I gave it to a local farmer that heated his shop with a used oil heater. A month or so later when I returned to his farm he commented something like " don't give me that blankety blank used oil of yours again!" I remember that it caught me off-guard because I had a pretty good relationship with him and never saw him upset like this before. He explained that after he poured my used AMSOIL into his furnace it wouldn't burn like the other lubes that he typically fired through his heater. He said that the only way he was able to run it through his heater was to dilute the reservoir with other used oil that he had on hand...
Not very scientific, but obviously the used oil that he got from me (mostly 10W40) still had a higher fire-point than anything that he had used before. I was using AMSOIL in a 4x4 Toyota pickup for my veterinary work at the time and typically had in excess of 40,000km on the oil before I changed it. Most of my Toyotas were driven over 500,000km before I sold them and one even went as high as 770,000kms. Even though I'm retired now, I can't buy any other make of truck or oil, for that matter. Dutchy

 

[Monster5601]

A month or so later when I returned to his farm he commented something like " don't give me that blankety blank used oil of yours again!" He explained that after he poured my used AMSOIL into his furnace it wouldn't burn

I think that the old boy was telling you a story. Flash points of engine oils are from 400 F degrees though just over 500 F degrees with AMSOIL being on the higher end. The typical temperature of a candle flame is 2,000 F degrees. If he could successfully burn engine oil that had a flash point on the low end, he could certainly burn oil with a flash point of 500 F degrees.

 

[Robin Veerman]

Not very scientific, but obviously the used oil that he got from me (mostly 10W40) still had a higher fire-point than anything that he had used before.

My point precisely! Especially of interest since so many believe that oil is oil, when it is simply standards that have to be met, which most oils barely meet while some oils exceed those standards by a wide margin. You have a favourite oil? I have a favourite oil! You have a favourite ice cream? I have a favourite.... Gotta love oil threads. Dutchy

 

[WilliamBos]

Thanks for sharing this. Will be swapping my jk over to Amsoil.

I mostly use Rotella 5-40 T6 because it can be had on sale pretty cheap and I use my drain oil to heat my shop anyway.

I use AMSOIL because I think that it is a top notch oil, and I have done so for probably 25 years or more. Several years ago I had accumulated a quantity of used oil (AMSOIL) and I gave it to a local farmer that heated his shop with a used oil heater. A month or so later when I returned to his farm he commented something like " don't give me that blankety blank used oil of yours again!" I remember that it caught me off-guard because I had a pretty good relationship with him and never saw him upset like this before. He explained that after he poured my used AMSOIL into his furnace it wouldn't burn like the other lubes that he typically fired through his heater. He said that the only way he was able to run it through his heater was to dilute the reservoir with other used oil that he had on hand...
Not very scientific, but obviously the used oil that he got from me (mostly 10W40) still had a higher fire-point than anything that he had used before. I was using AMSOIL in a 4x4 Toyota pickup for my veterinary work at the time and typically had in excess of 40,000km on the oil before I changed it. Most of my Toyotas were driven over 500,000km before I sold them and one even went as high as 770,000kms. Even though I'm retired now, I can't buy any other make of truck or oil, for that matter. Dutchy

 

[Robin Veerman]

Will,
Here's the AMSOIL link to build your Jeep. AMSOIL Auto & Light Truck Lookup Guide
Dutchy

 

[WilliamBos]

Thank you.

Will,
Here's the AMSOIL link to build your Jeep. AMSOIL Auto & Light Truck Lookup Guide
Dutchy

 

[Cat_Driver]

I just paid $22 a gallon for Mobil Delvac 1, 5W40 full synthetic... A pretty good deal through my local NAPA.

I just had Amsoil delivered to my front door without me wasting fuel to go to the store and back again to purchade it $23.10 a gallon, an even BETTER DEAL as fuel would have cost me more that the $1.10 you saved.

 

[DEWFPO]

I just had Amsoil delivered to my front door without me wasting fuel to go to the store and back again to purchade it $23.10 a gallon, an even BETTER DEAL as fuel would have cost me more that the $1.10 you saved.
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What about shipping costs? Amsoil has always charged me to ship. Not unreasonable but not free and not cheap.

DEWFPO

 

[Robin Veerman]

AMSOIL has free shipping with minimum orders for Commercial/Retail accounts and even Preferred Customers (have to sign up though) now. So I always try to order enough to get the free shipping ... Dutchy