Delo 400

   / Delo 400 #181  
soundguy,
restoring current tractors in the future is going to be a difficult proposition at best. Plastic parts, obsolete computer modules, wallowed out aluminum housings, etc....

Ben
 
   / Delo 400 #182  
Your right, unfortunately none of those diesels back then were turbocharged and and tolerances of precision manufacture were much greater back then too, heck even the metallic composition of bearings, pistons, valves, etc. is entirely different now. Maximum combustion chamber pressures in those primitive diesels never even reached 1/10th the 220 bar range they operate at now either. In other words, they could only be designed to operate with what their antique technology was capable of handling at that time, ie straight cut non detergent dino oils.

Try running a modern turbodiesel on straight cut non detergent dino oil and see how far you get! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
   / Delo 400 #183  
Most of the farmers around me run regular rotella or somesuch in their modern turbo diesel trucks, no problems that I know of except they keep banging the sheetmetal up.
Ben
 
   / Delo 400 #184  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( restoring current tractors in the future is going to be a difficult proposition at best. Plastic parts, obsolete computer modules, wallowed out aluminum housings, etc )</font>

Ditto. That's why I like to buy tractors with metal components.. and as little exposed rubber and plastic as possible. My last 2 'new' tractors.. the NH 1920 and 7610S are / were that way. About the only rubber / plastic was the dash cluster and the seat!!

Something about looking at the size of the huge 95 hp engine in my tractor.. and then looking at the much smaller 5.9l v8 in my truck ( with way more HP ) and thinking.. wow.. that tractor engine will probably outlive that truck engine at 3x the hp by a multiple...

Soundguy
 
   / Delo 400 #185  
Shell's Rotella is a multigrade detergent motor oil, not a single grade non detergent motor oil. It shouldn't offer much protection against sheetmetal damage regardless.
 
   / Delo 400 #186  
Well, OK, I am almost sold. The next 225 ft yacht I buy, I'm gonna run synthetic. But there are a couple of questions maybe you could clarify about your story.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Unfortunately for him, when the turbos ate it from the dino oil overheating, he was 2,500 miles out in the Atlantic!!!! His mistake cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars!

Since he switched to using full synthetic turbodiesel motor oil exclusively, it has saved him millions! )</font>

So...he has avoided buying how many engines since the turbo failure? That would equate to a lot of hours, but....

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Sure are happy to be 100% synthetic though, since in the subsequent 6,000 hours there have been no maintenance problems to report to Catepillar. 6,000 hours is only one year of operation though..... ))</font>

Saved millions of dollars in 6,000 hours of subsequent operation. OK, I can see that.

But if 6,000 hours is only one year of operation, that would mean that Tom & Nicole were on the boat in, what, early 2004? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Tom & Nicole split up in 2001.


edit: deleted one sentence that, after reading it, I realized probably sounded insulting. That is not my intention but sometimes I come across that way and I apologize to all that may have read it, especially Skypup.
 
   / Delo 400 #187  
Shell Rotella does make a single grade 30wt. Also the atmosphereic pressure pushes the air charge into a nonturbo/nonsupercharger diesel engine. So it should be 1 bar, squeeze, bang....etc. IH3444
Sorry, can't help myself, physics is our bag at LCP. Study of biochem at quantum level. Skypup understands........
 
   / Delo 400 #188  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( No, there are millions more! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )</font>

Mr. Pup, I've told you millions of times not to exaggerate. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
   / Delo 400 #189  
There was an entire write up of the devestated CAT V-16 that choked on dino oil and the movie stars in one of the Yachting magazines, including the removal and installation of the new CAT V-16 marine propulsion units through the side of the boat on drydock at their home port of Savannah. Georgia, I was there for a tour of the ship personally, it took about 10 months of work to get it all sorted out. My brother-in-law did NOT even want to think about how much running that dino oil cost him.....but my sister was glad to have him back home for once (she owes it all to some crummy dino oil) ...... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
   / Delo 400 #190  
I should have followed my instinct and avoided a faith based thread.
Oh well. Adios believe what you want, I am waiting on proof.
Ben
 

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