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NC Wayne
12-17-2006 17:23:45
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Hey guys, I just read part of the post concerning engine oil and the amount of additives, or lack thereof, being used in them. I know everyone usually has their own prefferd brand and it's hard as pulling hens teeth to get them to change, especially if the "new stuff" is a little more expensive. That said the best oils and greases on the market are made by Lubrication Engineers. Between Dad and myself we've got nearly 60 years of experience repairing farm tractors and equipment, construction equipment, cranes, trucks, etc. Basically if it's old and no one else wants to mess with it it eventually finds it's way to us. We've got a customer that has used nothing but LE producst for nearly 40 years and he's never had a lubricant related failure. We rebuilt a 3306 CAT for him last year that developed a hole in the liner from electrolosis. The engine had run in an excavator, digging gravel, for 12 years and the crank miked out still standard. Dad said in nearly 40 years in the business he'd never seen a crank come back as standard after that amount of run time. As our customer often says, "I can buy junk and use LE on it and it never gets any worse". It's more than doubled the turbo life on another customers machines that we were having to replace at least once a year because of the conditions they operate under. LEs's grease has also more than doubled the life of the drill chucks on the same equipment. We've finally gotten another custometr to start using their grease on their Northwest dragline and they've already been able cut the greasing intervals in half with no problems. Not to mention several of their other quarries have found out about it and have called the area rep looking to buy. It's allowed me to start my service truck, without a block heater, when it's below freezing instead of having to plug it in if it was gonna be anywhere even close. The engine oil is so slick they tell you outright not to use it in a new engine or the rings won't seat. Ok, sorta long winded there but I'm no salesman spouting nothing but facts and figures about the oil and grease itself so all I can do is tell it like I see it. I'm very hard to please but I know when a good thing when I see it. Like I told the guys at the quarry I've got something to lose if you use the good stuff because I won't have as much work to do for ya'll, but if you use the junk I might haver some work to do for awhile but eventually that's gonna end because the machine isn't gonna be too worn out to worry about fixing anymore. Either way I lose work in the end.....
Ok, I've put the info out there what ya'll do with it is up to ya'll... like the old saying goes, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink"..... For those of you that are interested, here's a link. When you hear their prices don't faint, it may be twice as expensive in the beginning but when you cut the grease intervals by half it evens out and the extra money spend now will more than make up for itself in the future by increasing the equipment life and reducing the amount of repairs needed.
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