Living The Dream
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What are your intervals for changing fluids on your machine and what weights are you using?
What intervals are you changing your fluids?
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Mikey P
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100 hours
10/30 Mobile 1
10/30 Mobile 1
Living The Dream
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Synthetic? I've been running Napa 10/30 synthetic and changing every 50 hrs. How about blower oil?
Mikey P
Administrator
yes, syn
Only one choice for blower oil that I know of..
Only one choice for blower oil that I know of..
KevinD
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handdi
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Mikey P
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Aeon.
hogjowl
Idiot™
I pull into Express Oil once a month
Jim Williams
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I try to do the engine on my slide in every 50 hours. In the busy season it's more like 100. I do the blower and pump oil once a year and lube blower bearings every oil change.
I'm every 50-75 hrs with 5w30synthetic on my liquid cooled engine
Blower oil? I forget. Whatever my manual tells me to use
Water pump is 15w40 oil every 500hrs with blower
Blower oil? I forget. Whatever my manual tells me to use
Water pump is 15w40 oil every 500hrs with blower
KevinD
Member
Do they do your blower and pump too?
hogjowl
Idiot™
Living The Dream
Member
How's your new truck Matt?
I'm loving it. I'll be loving it more when I, hopefully, get my truck mount installed this weekend
Wayne Thompson
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10 /30 mobile one on the propane engine every 100 hours.
Couple of times a night.
Mikey P
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Wandslinger
Member
Just regular oil?
Goomer
Member
Automotive oils should not be used on air-cooled engines.
Do you think that's the reason kohler engines start leaking oil so soon?
There was a friendly debate on Facebook, just recently on the water pump oil. I was arguing with myself on my water pump's oil, because a few other guys said to use 30wND (ISO100) oil in the water pump , yet my manual says to use 15w40. I looked it up in General Pump's manual and it says that 15w40 is compatible with ISO100. How can that be? Is 15w40 a non detergent oil??? And isn't detergent bad for our water pumps?
Goomer
Member
I can't speak for that, other than that, it's about the Zinc.
Potentially very-high-temp air cooled engines require an oil with anti-wear components that add additional protection at higher temps.
Zinc provides high heat protection that surpasses even the anti-wear properties of the best synthetic base stocks by forming a glass-like film at higher temps.
Without this added layer of protection from Zinc, even full synthetics can burn at higher heats.
How hot does your car/van engine get compared to what your slide-in engine can get?
Years ago, most quality AUTOMOTIVE oils had adequate Zinc levels, so you could get away with using them in hotter air-cooled engines, and is the reason old-timers will state they used XXX brand for years without problems, which was true.
The Gubberment now regulates Zinc content in auto-spec'd oils because it contributes to catalytic converter failure, which the auto industry does not want.
Adequate Zinc levels can now only be found in air-cooled specific oils, like small engine Mfr blends, bike oils, racing oils, and top shelf premiums and such, so it pays to seek them out and pay a little more.
Most any bike shops will stock some of the good sh!t.
Living The Dream
Member
So what is your go to oil?
Nate The Great
Member
He uses a portable... Aside from which outlet to use, I'd take it with a grain of salt....
Total_Rookie
Member
Every month on the kubota, every 200 on the pump, every 1k on the blower, monthly bimba shaft anti seize, a quick squirt of wd daily.
Goomer
Member
I don't really have a brand preference, but my criteria is it being a FULL synthetic specifically spec'd for racing/bike/air-cooled applications that references an additional anti-wear package on the label.
Believe it or not, I think I have something from Valvoline in my pressure washer right now.
Valvoline's premium juices are usually the easiest ones to find at Autobone and P'boys.
Goomer
Member
He uses a portable... Aside from which outlet to use, I'd take it with a grain of salt....
Fooker.......
Ok...that was kind of funny.
But seriously, I'm more than just a porty God and I'm more than just a Master Pizzaiolo for almost 20 years.
Despite spending most of my life in NYC, I spent almost five years in Pennsylvania with 15 acres of land to manage, so I know my way around a gas engine.
Restored 4 different year Gravely walk behind front-PTO tractors and attachments, if anyone knows what they are, and a bunch of other machines.
Rednecks sure know their way around small engines.
You can learn a lot from them, and most are more than wiling to help out providing your willing to donate a 12 pack of Yuengling and a fat sack of shwag to the endeavor.
Many-a-long night in the garage.
Self-medication, Classic Rock, grease, oil, gas, power-tools, hand-tools, torches, widgets, dirty fingernails, bloody knuckles.....all till the Sun came up.........
Good fooking times.
Larry Cobb
Member
Goomer is correct. Zinc additives have been reduced in automotive oils.
We use Kohler 20-50W in our engines, and it is a major brand racing oil with full zinc package.
Diesel oils also have the full zinc package.
As any engine accumulates hours, the oil should be a heavier weight.
Blowers should always use full synthetics. Initially this was Aeon "PD" type.
Now, blower manufacturers have changed to the thicker Aeon XD spec.
We buy in bulk & have it at a reasonable cost: $20.99/qt.
We recommend change at 1200 hours.
http://www.cobbcarpet.com/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=68&products_id=5291
We use Kohler 20-50W in our engines, and it is a major brand racing oil with full zinc package.
Diesel oils also have the full zinc package.
As any engine accumulates hours, the oil should be a heavier weight.
Blowers should always use full synthetics. Initially this was Aeon "PD" type.
Now, blower manufacturers have changed to the thicker Aeon XD spec.
We buy in bulk & have it at a reasonable cost: $20.99/qt.
We recommend change at 1200 hours.
http://www.cobbcarpet.com/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=68&products_id=5291
