DIY Oil Change People
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Bota4me
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hahaha, it seems any thread with oil in it always gets interesting....
Apologies for my part in undesired thread drift.... and I may have not been interpreting Harry's post correctly.
Not the first time my verbosity got away on me..... :laughing:
Rgds, D.
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3930, i'd surely agree that in a hobby environment.. or even moderate use.. many people hit the 'year' limit befor ethe hour limit.. be it 300 or 600 hrs ( hyd for example )...in a industrial ( round the clock ) type environment. I can see hitting the hours in a month for a 600 hr mark. in that case. a syn oil offering extended change could mean quite a huge difference.. .. no arguments there.
ps.. my antiques are well cared for.. but a few of them I do work the snot out of. gotta earn their keep. I just got more of them to spread that snot around to in case one wants a break.. just break out one that looks just like it in many cases. but yeah. i agree with your points.
ps.. my antiques are well cared for.. but a few of them I do work the snot out of. gotta earn their keep.
I just got more of them to spread that snot around to in case one wants a break.. just break out one that looks just like it in many cases. but yeah. i agree with your points.3930, i'd surely agree that in a hobby environment.. or even moderate use.. many people hit the 'year' limit befor ethe hour limit.. be it 300 or 600 hrs ( hyd for example )...in a industrial ( round the clock ) type environment. I can see hitting the hours in a month for a 600 hr mark. in that case. a syn oil offering extended change could mean quite a huge difference.. .. no arguments there.
ps.. my antiques are well cared for.. but a few of them I do work the snot out of. gotta earn their keep.
Nothing wrong with hard work - tractors or people, so long as proper sustenance is provided ! :thumbsup:
Up here (cold weather season) I'd say many tractors suffer somewhat from NOT being worked hard enough - fluids don't get properly warmed up, often enough.
Rgds, D.
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them short runs sure are hard on machines.
my loader tractor that only gets run 2x per month.. ( for use ). I will usually start it in the morning when I go out to feed the horses / cows / pigs / chickens / dogs, and then turn it off when I come in.. that way it has had a half hour to warm. I do that at least once per week during it's off time to keep the juces condensation burned off and battery up for use when needed. also gives me a heads up if it needs anything before I need it..e tc.
my loader tractor that only gets run 2x per month.. ( for use ). I will usually start it in the morning when I go out to feed the horses / cows / pigs / chickens / dogs, and then turn it off when I come in.. that way it has had a half hour to warm. I do that at least once per week during it's off time to keep the juces condensation burned off and battery up for use when needed. also gives me a heads up if it needs anything before I need it..e tc.
Katahdin
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I was just wondering if there are any other TBNers here that are members of the "DIY oil change in the Walmart parking lot" club. Here's my membership credentials, a pic of me adding 5 gallons of sweet Rotella 15W40 to my Continental LDT-465 Multifuel engine at a Walmart in Skowhegan, Maine this past June.
Background story: A couple weeks before setting out on a 200 mile road trip to the Skowhegan Fairgrounds for a Municipality trade show, I sent away an oil sample to a NAPA lab. It had been almost 2 years since the last oil change but I had only gone 1200 miles or so. Unfortunately, the lab sample apparently got lost in the mail. Anywho, we finally got the lab results by email 100 miles into the trip. The moisture content and lubricity was fine, I think is what most of us would have been worried about, but the sample was high in iron and silica so the lab recommended changing the oil immediately. Luckily I had all the tools we needed, and a couple gallons of Rotella. At the Walmart I went inside the store first and bought everything I needed to contain the oil, like gloves, a plastic drop cloth, two 5 gallon buckets to drain the two oil sumps, etc. I wish I would have timed the oil change, I had the 5 gallons of old oil drained before my wife could come back out of the store with 3 more gallons of Rotella and ice cream. We didn't leave a drop of oil on the parking lot and took the drop cloths, oil, and trash with us for proper disposal. Note, I did not change the oil filters at Walmart but did so 100 miles later when we got home. I would've needed to stop at NAPA for the filters and wasn't sure where one was at in Skow Town.
Note.... I'm not Proud....:laughing:
Background story: A couple weeks before setting out on a 200 mile road trip to the Skowhegan Fairgrounds for a Municipality trade show, I sent away an oil sample to a NAPA lab. It had been almost 2 years since the last oil change but I had only gone 1200 miles or so. Unfortunately, the lab sample apparently got lost in the mail. Anywho, we finally got the lab results by email 100 miles into the trip. The moisture content and lubricity was fine, I think is what most of us would have been worried about, but the sample was high in iron and silica so the lab recommended changing the oil immediately. Luckily I had all the tools we needed, and a couple gallons of Rotella. At the Walmart I went inside the store first and bought everything I needed to contain the oil, like gloves, a plastic drop cloth, two 5 gallon buckets to drain the two oil sumps, etc. I wish I would have timed the oil change, I had the 5 gallons of old oil drained before my wife could come back out of the store with 3 more gallons of Rotella and ice cream. We didn't leave a drop of oil on the parking lot and took the drop cloths, oil, and trash with us for proper disposal. Note, I did not change the oil filters at Walmart but did so 100 miles later when we got home. I would've needed to stop at NAPA for the filters and wasn't sure where one was at in Skow Town.
Note.... I'm not Proud....:laughing:
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is that anything like changing a starter in the parking lot of a napa..
I have an Autozone down the road that sit's in the middle of a plaza strip with other stores all sharing a parking lot.
It's a funny sight on an early morning before all the stores open up, when you can see, when driving by, only the parking spots in front of the car parts store, are all soiled hard, from years every type of needy car leaking fluids of every type.:laughing:
It's a funny sight on an early morning before all the stores open up, when you can see, when driving by, only the parking spots in front of the car parts store, are all soiled hard, from years every type of needy car leaking fluids of every type.:laughing: