Engine Oil Lubricant Discussion Thread

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Oh goody..........an oil thread ......

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Love to be lubricated!

Ok bill we are ready for some of your slick insight!

I love lube also. It's going to be hard to convince me of anything other than my Mobile 1 for synthetic needs and Castrol 10w40 for everything else. For me it would come down to the fact that I haven't ever had a failure related to oil. So it's hard to change when it's always worked.

But I'm curious as to how this thread will show me a new light so that I will change to another brand of oil.

Enlighten me....

Be aware folks.... When Tripod, Macaws, and Rabtech start talking about lubricants, somehow someway there could be a Twister game involved... Just saying.

I can tell you one thing about oil and this goes back a few years. Just because it is a name brand oil and supposed to be the best thing out there and cost more doesn't mean crap. I saw the effects of using this oil every day when I worked at a service station. I also saw probable one of the most unrated oils out there, it worked and kept your engine clean.

Which oil?

Technology has changed a lot since then. the bad was Exxon/Esso Uniflo which was the top of there line. The good was Texaco Haveline of which you could have a totally gummed up engine and it would clean ALL of the gum and deposits out and do the job of lubing your engine the way it was supposed to. I know from personal experience.

I cannot believe the wealth of knowledge here!!! Amazing!

Does everyone pretty much agree Mobile 1 is the best oil??? If not change my mind

Quote from Tripod

Fun, my Dad is 85 & has always sworn by Havoline oil. I used it in my younger years but have since switched over to synthetics.

I am using the synthetic oils in the SS and the Harley, the brands referred to me by others. The Trans Am has never had anything in it but Castrol which the first owner used from day one and it has around 200,000 + miles on it now. The light is out behind the odometer, have not seen the miles since 159,000 and that was years ago. There is no telling what is in the wife's car. So I also want to know what Bill has to say about the current oils

I don't use synthetic anything but the Slingshot
But I am anal about changing oil every 3,000 no matter what.
On my small engines get oil changes once a year no matter the hours of running.

The first person to recommend Amsoil here will get sent to find Ocean frontage in Arkansas. I won't ever buy it just due to the multilevel pyramid scheme crap they use to sell it...If they found out tomorrow that it would increase you male anatomy by 5 inches just by owning a bottle I still wouldn't buy it....

I guess if you like it then just use it..... but somehow I always end up in some debate over how versatile Amsoil is. And then they send me a link to how many engines they have saved by using it..... NOOOOOOO just say no....

They would never sell me on the 5" thing but possibly my bride

Mobil 1 for me. Works great for lubing guns too.

Thanks everyone, and thanks to Tripod for firing up the thread.

The biggest bugaboo in today's engine oil world comes from an unlikely place: emissions controls. Now, before we devolve this into an EPA-bashing session (a popular activity today, and one I'd prefer to save for another time), I'd courteously ask that we focus on the task at hand...determining the best approach for lubing our engines.

In order to keep catalytic converters happy in modern vehicles, efforts have extended even to the engine motor oils, or more specifically, their additives. Modern oils are a marvel of chemistry, with much more in there than just decomposed dinosaurs. The additives chemists use run the gamut from the simple to the sublime. Zinc has always been a key additive, one that helps reduce wear and friction. However, in recent years, zinc has been pulled back considerably in modern formulations. You see, zinc had been discovered to be deleterious to catalytic converters and oxygen sensors, even in the small quantities the engine typically aspirates as a component of combusted engine oil.

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