Re: 55 years of

Posted by RBoots on January 22, 2019 at 16:55:19 from (173.241.113.101):

In Reply to: 55 years of posted by SVcummins on January 22, 2019 at 00:04:16:

I don't know what kind of oil my buddy runs in his 3020, but I pulled it down to rebuild it, even though it only had a leaking sleeve o-ring. He wanted it rebuilt either way. It was just spotless inside, aside from just being oily, there was no sludge or crud in it at all. I believe certain kinds of oils can cause sludge, but I think it also has a lot to do with how it's run. If I start a tractor up just to move it a few feet in winter time, I'll let it idle for 5 minutes or maybe just a little above to get things moving, then after 5 minutes I'll run it up half throttle for 15 or so minutes so it can fully warm up, then I'll cut it back to an idle for a minute or so before shutting it off. My Powerstroke has 302,000 miles on it and I've only ever had the valve covers off twice to replace the glow plugs and do injector o-rings. When I opened it up the last time, last summer at 297,000 miles, the valve covers were spotless. Oily, but no sludge at all. The last 100,000+ miles I've been changing the oil and filter every 10,000 miles, using conventional 15-40, either Wolf's Head, Kendall,Valvoline or Shell Rotella, but I prefer the Kendall or Wolf's Head the most. But, I run everything of mine quite hard, after a thorough warm up. I'm a big fan of using 15-40 in all of my tractor engines, really works well, gas or diesel. Any of mine I've torn down are always pretty clean inside, as compared to something that had been run with something else sludgy before I got it. Some of the stuff that comes in to me for a rebuild surprises me how sludgy some can be (no idea what kinds of oil). On the other hand, my grandpa had a Chevy pickup with a TBI 350 that blew a headgasket. It had around 180,000 miles. He would always just hop in it and go, unless it was really cold. He'd run it up to a blistering 35 mph or so and drive the back roads everywhere. Never went over that fast, or accelerated quickly or harshly. Drove it that way for as long as I could remember. When I tore it apart, it had balls and chunks of rock hard carbon type material in the valley and around the rocker/valve area. Some about as big as a tennis ball, most sized about like a golf ball. It had used oil since it had rolled past 150,000 miles. He always used Quaker State, but I feel it was the way it was run more so than the oil he used. I told him to run it harder and to get on it on take offs, so he bumped his speed up to 40, and would take off like a person would trying to take off on an icy hill without spinning their tires. I guess he felt like he was really getting after it though lol. I know a lot of people that will start their car and immediately hop in and drive to the gas station 4 blocks away to get a Pepsi, shut it off, then start it back up and head the 4 blocks home. And do that numerous times a day. Now I don't know for sure, but that seems like it'd be not all that great for your engine. Maybe that's why they are always having their car in the shop, I don't know.

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