Sears oil?

bruce · Dec 3, 2002

Anybody know anything about Sears brand oil"Spectrum" Its made by Warren Performance Products in Omaha,Nebraska?They had it on sale for 54 cents(us money)a qt.I coundnt resist it and put it in my two Caravans that have 200k miles on them.The motors havent blown up yet lol!

[ December 03, 2002, 05:57 PM: Message edited by: bruce ]

Chris · Dec 3, 2002

Suppose you could find some SA oil if you wanted something of the lowest grade. This must be one step up.

cobravenom71 · Dec 3, 2002

Can SA rated oil still be found? Why would any manufacturer still make, let alone any retailer carry such an outdated product with no 'market' for it? Doesn't make sense to me.

Propflux01 · Dec 3, 2002

SA can still be found...usually in grocery or convenience stores. Usually the 50 cent oil that some people buy becasue the engine its going in is burning more oil than gas so they don't care what goes in it. Usually just says 'non-detergent' on it.

satterfi · Dec 3, 2002

I bought some SA oil a few weeks ago. I used it to flush out a high pressure water pump before putting Redline MTL in it.

It has some useful purpose, but not much.

csandste · Dec 3, 2002

Now, now-- Warren is the secondary manufacturer of Wal-Mart's house brand, along with the PZ/QS subsidiary. I'm sure any oil sold by Sears is SL by now, not SA.

csandste · Dec 3, 2002

Here's the data sheets for Mag 1-- I suppose the Sears is similar--

http://www.wd-wpp.com/specsheet/motoroil.pdf

I have to sign off for a couple of hours. Haven't had a time to look at these specs. Would someone like to critique? At least this is SL.

csandste · Dec 3, 2002

Apparently there's a number of Warren companies, one of which merged into Gulf. This didn't. I'll look into relationships later.

bruce · Dec 3, 2002

The label says api service SJ.Exceeds all waranty requirements and ILSAC-2.

Ken2 · Dec 4, 2002

Old stock.

API-SL and ILSAC GF-3 became effective July, 2001.

Ken

csandste · Dec 4, 2002

If you're engines are that old they should be able to handle SJ with no trouble. If it's a Mitsu. V-6, the valve guides should be crapping out for about the second time. They way most of those engines fog out oil I'd pay as little as possible!

csandste · Dec 4, 2002

Actually a comparison with other 10W30 dinos shows pretty good figures. High flash, pretty good pour points, lots of viscousity. Of course this is the SL stuff and I don't know if it's the same as Spectrum.

I used to use Sears oil in the 70's and early '80's and had no trouble with it.

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