Time For An Oil Change

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#21  
Thanks for the reply. Bar oil is not expensive but I did not want to waste almost perfectly good used oil. I do not have the saw that I used the old oil in anymore, someone stole it. I have been using bar oil in the saw I have now and will continue to do so. Guess I'll just recyle the oil from my tractor.
 
   / Time For An Oil Change #22  
Local Kubota Dealer offers free oil recycling for both engine oil and hydraulic oil in any quantities. You just take it to them, dump it in their 500 gallon tank. They have to pay to get it picked up but there is no charge to you. They will also take from your car oil changes. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
 
   / Time For An Oil Change #23  
A lot of the auto parts chain stores and probably some of the independents offer free recycling of motor oil. Ask. The ones I deal with have even dropped their 4qt maximum per "visit". They want you in the store buying stuff I guess. Another one has a 5 gal per visit. Ok 5 gal for me, 5 for the wife, kids, neighbor kids etc etc we all walk in one by one. With tractors, trucks, RV cars etc it piles up quick. Sometimes they are sending it to someone to burn and they are VERY PICKY about the oil and any contaminants in it. Other places just have a barrel with a coarse screen over it, and the fellow said "Oh, don't worry we get oil that is half water (left outside) leaves, even found a dead squirrel on the screen"

Some places are FINALLY starting to take antifreeze. I cringe when I think of what has happened to all of the used antifreeze before now. And as with the garbage dumping thread, even when recycling is free you still have people that just dump it anywhere. Sometimes I think we don't have to worry about our adversaries overseas, we have a bigger threat in ourselves.
 
   / Time For An Oil Change #24  
wen,
You mentioned you would probably use 10W-40 on your next oil change (I know that was back in June). If you plan on using a regular pet. oil (non-synthetic) you may want to consider using 15W-40, 10W-30, or straight 30W (depending on the temperatures). Regular petroleum base oils with a wide scale viscosity rating like 10W-40 have to add a lot of viscosity enhancers to maintane stability - these enhancers have a tendancy to break down after a while (especially if they get overheated) Synthetics don't have this problem since they are much more stable.
I realize Kubota (like others) recommends using 10W-40 in some cases, but I'd shy away from it unless it's synthetic.

Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Scott
 
   / Time For An Oil Change #25  
seems like i remember GM having a bad attitude towards 10w40 oil; even threatened to void warranties for a while??
as for cheap synthetic oil; if you have a farm or other business; amsoil also has a commercial program set-up; it gets you the best prices of all, but no re-selling, no yearly dealer fee either..any dealer can sign you up with a commercial account..
heehaw
 
   / Time For An Oil Change #26  
Your right about GM having problems with 10W-40 motor oils. This became more of an issue when they went to fuel injection and tighter emissions. Seems the heavier oils had a problem with carbon build up around the rings because of the higher combustion temps needed for emissions.

Scott
 
   / Time For An Oil Change #27  
Hmmm, the story I got was that they recommended the 10W-30 over the 10W-40 simply because a thinner oil made a very tiny bit of difference in the fuel mileage and they made that recommendation to make it easier to meet federal standards. And I never heard anything about voiding warranties, and would have some serious doubts about that.

Bird
 
   / Time For An Oil Change #28  
you know how the rumors are; i wouldn't bet either way on the voiding warranties part...but manufacturers do strange things to save $$$; i bought a new ford f150 in 1981; after i bought it, i found out the transmission warranty would be voided if i pulled anything; it had a 5speed manual/overdrive; of course a lot of the voiding warranty is up to the dealer..anyway, i wonder if anyone has seen anything in writting from GM about the 10w40 issue?? all i have is hearsay..i'll take a look in the owners manual and see if it says anything.
heehaw
 
   / Time For An Oil Change #29  
Bird

I heard the same thing. Basically GM had to meet the CAFE (corporate average fuel ecomony) standards set out by the feds. My question is why not use synthetics and gain that much more fuel economy to meet the CAFE standards.??

Derek
 
   / Time For An Oil Change #30  
Yeah, I know what you mean about rumors. I got my information from a good friend of mine who works as a service manager at a local GM dealership. It's no secret that GM now recommends 5W-30 for most of it's vehicles for fuel economy reasons.

I agree with Derek - use a synthetic and call it a day!


Scott
 

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