You didn't say on what. Non-detergent oil was here before detergent. If you ever opened up an engine that lived on the stuff you'd see the plague that it was. Detergent solved that problem. Rumors have abounded that if you have one of those engines and put detergent oil in them they will start burning oil. Baloney. If you see the detergent oil getting dirty, it's picking up combustion byproducts and oil degradation products that used to stay in the engine. Over time, detergent oil can clean up a gunked up engine but snake oil additives can aid in the process of the cleanup. Some of these loose contaminants come out the exhaust pipe and look like you have engine problems but that isn't necessarily the case.
Used to be that single grade motor oil was all that you could buy. Back in the 50's multiviscosity came out and apparently it's is preferred judging by the oil sitting on wally worlds shelves...... and they stock what sells in the season it sells.
Used to be you had oil for gears and oil for hydraulics. Nowadays farm equipment uses common sumps. Hydraulic oil (10-30 sort of viscosity) now has additives to prevent gear wear, foaming, and all that so older tractors, like my '63 Ford 2000 that used to use 90w oil in the tranny and diff, with hydraulic oil in the hydraulic sump, can use transmission/hydraulic oil (JD 303 spec. for a popular number) in all 3.
Newer equipment that has added wet brake squealing and hydrostatic steering and transmission requirements use a different oil with different additives usually covered by the JD J20C spec.
(Ref: My opinion and 60+ years of doing my own mechanicing)
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