Schaeffers 5w-40 synthetic?

[Jmoney7269]

1.) Was at the local Walmart restocking my oil supply for random machines I fix and see that delvac1 has an extreme 15w40 compared to their old esp 5w-40, what's the difference?
2.) I was thinking about getting a case of schaeffers 5w40 synthetic but that stuff is $35gal. Is it worth that price when I can get rotella for $23/gal. Schaeffers say they use a combo of PAO and hydrocracked oil. Just wondering if anyone runs or has ran this oil and if any UOA were done? Not gonna lie, my favorite color is red and these bottles attracted me!

 

[skyactiv]

I highly doubt it will benefit you in any way minus the dopamine release when pouring it in the engine.

 

[Jmoney7269]

I highly doubt it will benefit you in any way minus the dopamine release when pouring it in the engine.

That's kind of what I figured. I was considering it for my personal tractor. Kubota reccomends intervals of 500hrs. I do it every 200 because that's what we were taught in the ag industry as kids. A place I worked at in high school made us change the oil in the field with 5gal buckets. Machines weren't allowed to go over that golden 200hr limit. My Kubota oil is completely black after 20hrs of operation. My massey 265 oil stays pretty clean through the entire 200hrs. But the crankcase is vented to atmosphere and it has zero emissions

 

[fantastic]

The 5w-40 is Mobil's top HDEO & the Extreme was launched to compete with the others coming out with a 15w40 product (Like T6). I can't recommend Schaeffers just to the simple fact I had a bad experience with one of the heads that went out of his way to tell my Schaffer's labeled eBay oil analysis kits were "worthless" & they would not honor anything with them when I ran into trouble trying to add GC fuel test method.

 

[siriusc1024]

Favorite color might be red, but that oil comes out dark green.

It's good oil. You can potentially benefit from it, but to what extent depends on what the demands are. Application?

 

[Plumb Bob]

If you're shopping for a red container, go with Schaeffer's. I would buy Delvac 1 ESP 5W-40 - there's nothing old about it.

 

[johnmyster]

On the walmart shelf, my current favorite is the Delo in the box.

 

[NorCalWrench530]

We’ve been soured on Schaeffer’s on the farm, we’d buy a 275 gal tote at a time. We ran it with no problems until one day our rep showed up with a new 275 gallon tote saying that there was a problem with our previous batch number and they’d swap out our tote to the new one, he wouldn’t say what was wrong but when we asked what happens if we have a failure in our equipment that was running the old batch number and if there were to be a failure related to oil what would happen?? He said they wouldn’t cover it. Well we drained everything and switched to another oil supplier.. not saying it’s bad stuff just telling what our situation was

 

[Plumb Bob]

On the walmart shelf, my current favorite is the Delo in the box.

Running the "lowly" XLE SB in my gasser.

 

[#18FAN]

We all just running HPL if we want boutique right i know i I'm running.

 

[facility1]

actually, Schaeffer's engine oil is one of the favorites in the otr truckers from what I hear from a friend that's into trucking.

 

[Wizz]

I would not use it based on my used oil analysis (long time ago now) and others I have seen. A lot better options on the WalMart shelves.

 

[Jmoney7269]

I would not use it based on my used oil analysis (long time ago now) and others I have seen. A lot better options on the WalMart shelves.

Thanks. Yeah after much research, just decided to go with mobil delvac 1 extreme 15w40 for all my diesel stuff. Same thing I been using

 

[firefighter731]

1.) Was at the local Walmart restocking my oil supply for random machines I fix and see that delvac1 has an extreme 15w40 compared to their old esp 5w-40, what's the difference?
2.) I was thinking about getting a case of schaeffers 5w40 synthetic but that stuff is $35gal. Is it worth that price when I can get rotella for $23/gal. Schaeffers say they use a combo of PAO and hydrocracked oil. Just wondering if anyone runs or has ran this oil and if any UOA were done? Not gonna lie, my favorite color is red and these bottles attracted me!

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Just my own experience and opinion ......... I have used Schaeffer oil for many years in all our units since 1999. Not sure when they introduced full synthetic, but I jumped on it from the get go. I had a 2000 Series 60 that at 850K I thought blew a head gasket, but upon disassembly, found it was a broken rod that shoved the piston up into the head causing the coolant leak. Driver drove the unit all the way home without issue, on 5 cylinders and couldn't tell a difference. Rebuilt the engine and when I pulled the piston sleeves, they still had the factory hash marks. Will not use anything else. When your livelihood depends on your vehicle maintenance .... just saying.

 

[kschachn]

Just my own experience and opinion ......... I have used Schaeffer oil for many years in all our units since 1999. Not sure when they introduced full synthetic, but I jumped on it from the get go. I had a 2000 Series 60 that at 850K I thought blew a head gasket, but upon disassembly, found it was a broken rod that shoved the piston up into the head causing the coolant leak. Driver drove the unit all the way home without issue, on 5 cylinders and couldn't tell a difference. Rebuilt the engine and when I pulled the piston sleeves, they still had the factory hash marks. Will not use anything else. When your livelihood depends on your vehicle maintenance .... just saying.

That's quite the testimonial, you should submit it to Schaeffer's and see if they will post it to their website. Maybe you'll get a hat or something.

 

[jtwrace]

If I'm spending money on boutique oil, I'm buying Amsoil.

 

[Plumb Bob]

Driver drove the unit all the way home without issue, on 5 cylinders and couldn't tell a difference.

I'd be more concerned about my ears, than the choice of oil.