Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Totally
....and it's a slow day - NAPA didn't have my boiler fuel filters and they wanted LIST PRICE
so I didn't get them.
The math aside ...I think we need a new "fuzzy statistic" here on BITOG.
Hot oil drain time indexed for temp and alleged sump size. Now admittedly, we'll have a few members without IR gun temp indicators or on board oil temp gauges ..but what can you do?
That's why it will be a "fuzzy" statistic.
We can then praise our favorite oil for either its high or low drain rate based on if we perceive one or the other as favorable.
Things like:
"My M1 5w-X drained out in 3 minutes from the plug removal to dripping at a rate of minute."
This would be the comment if one wanted to bolster the "better flow" characteristics.
OTOH one might say
"My Amsoil 5w-X took 7 minute from plug removal to dripping at a rate of minute".
This would be the comment if one wanted to bolster the notion of "clinging to parts better".
Fans of either could then counter the perceived feature/characteristic with arguments that the other didn't cling to parts ..or left more contaminated oil within the engine.
What about the skewed data from those with fumoto valves.....