Wal Mart oil vs. Federated Coop Oils

[oneoff]

"Doubting Thomas"

Much much better than "Cheers" which always rubbed the wrong way.

[Klause]

Coop oil in farm equipment and Mobil in pickups and semi.


Cat did a test with all the oils. Basically ran engines till they siezed from the oil additives being worn out.


Mobil and chevron were tied at the top. Coop petro can and she'll in the middle. Castrol and Walmart at the bottom.

[15444]

Ran Walmart oil for years. Have sent several samples in to both Cat and the highly regarded Blackstone Labs in the U.S. All come back with top marks. Ran 15/40 in the 7.3 for 8000 miles and sent in to Blackstone to see if I had let it go too long. Report came back that plenty of additive still left and could push it further if I wanted.

I change oil in equipment every year, regardless of hours, because it is cheap. I've met a lot of people who go long periods without changing or with low oil because "it's too expensive". Those are the ones I don't want equipment from.

[wmoebis]

Tom is your VW a beetle?

[TOM4CWB]

wm

3LDiesel in Touareg.

[tweety]

Klause, you can solve that problem by changing the oil.

[farmaholic]

Oil consumption, I find after a fresh oil change the need to add(unless you have an outright oil burner) isn't necessary until the damn stuff starts to breakdown. Unfortunately we don't get to what seems to the end of a reasonable time between oil changes before we need to start adding. What are others finding?

[Klause]

Tweety the point is some additives are better than others.


Oil is cheap compared to an engine.


We change oil every 125 hours no matter what. Works out that it's right at the add mark with those hrs.


Our tractors are all over 6k hours many never even touched.

[hobbyfrmr]

Klause, your Massey would be a "new" one! Mine are from 6500 hours to 11,000 hours.
Very reliable tractors, I noticed the only thing I am missing is a $30,000 semi annual payment!

[pourfarmer]

From several hundred hours of vigorous testing between Walmart and Coop high performance oil I've found that the Walmart supertech oils will leak just as well from my equipment as the coop stuff. I do have one major issue with the Walmart oil, they use shitty plastic handles that limits the pails useful life to approximately one year. Thankfully we have no shortage of empty pails around here.

[farmaholic]

Now that is a priceless study.

[15444]

How do you quickly and effectively clean all the oil and residue out of oil and hydraulic pails? I got fed up with trying and wasting time on them, I just buy new pails with metal handles in the US for less than $3 a pop. Very good quality too as the vet tried to run one over the last time she was on call here with her clinic van. Pail went under the van and not a single crack in it - but does have an easy-pour lip now.