For commercial mowers. Used everyday in GA temps. Which one would you run and why?
Rotella 15w-40 verse Amsoil 10w-40 for commercial
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Only Amsoil if you can nail down a safe extended drain interval. Rotella or others, esp. a full syn, should hold up fine otherwise.
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I used delo 400 for 92hrs in my mower and the tbn was at 3.3 if I remember right. I was kind of disappointed. I also think the oxidation levels were pretty close to being flagged too.
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Could you explain to me what that means?
I run Amsoil 20w50 in my 2009 John Deere lawn tractor- twin cyl Briggs 22 hp engine. The one time I did a oil analysis at a bit over 100 hrs, the numbers came back very good. Surprisingly the engine only consumes about 4 oz of oil every 100 hrs, and has about 400 hrs on it currently. I use either a Wix or Amsoil filter.
Originally Posted By: Seventh
Rotella
Because I wouldn't want to risk compromising my equipment by trying to get my money's worth out of the amsoil by doing extended intervals.
The risk isn't worth the reward imho
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Rotella
Because I wouldn't want to risk compromising my equipment by trying to get my money's worth out of the amsoil by doing extended intervals.
The risk isn't worth the reward imho
+1
Originally Posted By: jeepman3071
Originally Posted By: Seventh
Rotella
Because I wouldn't want to risk compromising my equipment by trying to get my money's worth out of the amsoil by doing extended intervals.
The risk isn't worth the reward imho
+1
compromise what and who said anything of extended drain run full mfg drain interval go from that.
Originally Posted By: Seventh
Rotella
Because I wouldn't want to risk compromising my equipment by trying to get my money's worth out of the amsoil by doing extended intervals.
The risk isn't worth the reward imho
+1
compromise what and who said anything of extended drain run full mfg drain interval go from that.
Originally Posted By: dave123
Originally Posted By: jeepman3071
Originally Posted By: Seventh
Rotella
Because I wouldn't want to risk compromising my equipment by trying to get my money's worth out of the amsoil by doing extended intervals.
The risk isn't worth the reward imho
+1
compromise what and who said anything of extended drain run full mfg drain interval go from that.
If you could read you'd understand what's he's saying, which I agree with.
Originally Posted By: jeepman3071
Originally Posted By: Seventh
Rotella
Because I wouldn't want to risk compromising my equipment by trying to get my money's worth out of the amsoil by doing extended intervals.
The risk isn't worth the reward imho
+1
compromise what and who said anything of extended drain run full mfg drain interval go from that.
If you could read you'd understand what's he's saying, which I agree with.
After years of 30w and 15W-40 HDEO consumption in my personal mower, it took only 10-15 hours for Amsoil ASE to clean up the rings and stop consuming. Prior to that it burned ~1oz per hour regardless of what I used. I can go an entire season now on ASE and not burn a drop. Literally. Hate the price, but hard to argue with the results. I just order it once along with Saber 2 stroke and stock up for the year.
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Originally Posted By: zuluplus30
After years of 30w and 15W-40 HDEO consumption in my personal mower, it took only 10-15 hours for Amsoil ASE to clean up the rings and stop consuming. Prior to that it burned ~1oz per hour regardless of what I used. I can go an entire season now on ASE and not burn a drop. Literally. Hate the price, but hard to argue with the results. I just order it once along with Saber 2 stroke and stock up for the year.
Ding I don't think you can beat that oil up.
After years of 30w and 15W-40 HDEO consumption in my personal mower, it took only 10-15 hours for Amsoil ASE to clean up the rings and stop consuming. Prior to that it burned ~1oz per hour regardless of what I used. I can go an entire season now on ASE and not burn a drop. Literally. Hate the price, but hard to argue with the results. I just order it once along with Saber 2 stroke and stock up for the year.
Ding I don't think you can beat that oil up.
Id oil consumption due to sticky rings is your issue, try a piston soak with either seafoam or B12 Chemtool. Had a mower that would burn quite a bit of oil, did a piston soak and added some seafoam to the oil and ran it for 20 minutes, repeated the soak and changed the oil (Rotella). Mower quit burning oil entirely and the oil now stays clean, going on it's third season on this oil and it looks like the day I poured it in. Probably only put 20hrs a year on the mower but I was ready to buy a new one over the oil burning, mower's an almost 30yr old Toro and it runs like new.
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