Amsoil experience

[Mary W]

I run Brad Penn here in AZ. The next time it shows signs of not being able to handle the heat will be the first time. I'm not trying to convince you to change oils. I honestly don't care what you run. The idea, though, that conventional oil can't handle heat is pure marketing propaganda from the syn oil makers. They've gotten everyone convinced that conventional oil turns to ash and smoke at 250F.

I run Brad Penn in my engine, Rotella T in my primary, and Rotalla gear oil in my tranny so you can see I'm not a factory oil groupie, but I stand by my belief that a good quality oil (dino or syn) is the best way to go in any environment.

 

[supere30m3]

Dave?? are you there?

 

[C. L. Richardson]

Uhhh, Dave's not here, man ......

 

[~Skellington~]

I use Amsoil in everything I own. I won't get into the oil debate but the oil being black that soon,,,, something's not right.

 

[kimele]

Now I gotta chit can a case and a half of oil not

 

[Fiz501]

I'm curious about the filter bypass theory. Its the only explination that makes sense so far.

Beary

 

[mc021]

I ran a refinery unit that produced motor oil. There are no bad batches in refining. If the oil is off test for cold test, flash, or contaminents it is rerun through the process. That is the dyno stuff. The synthetic is another question. I don't know the answer to that one. Also several major oil companies used our refined product and put in their own additives. Some of your major names are only oil sales companies. They don't refine their own oil. There is no oil that is so pure that it don't have to be refined. There are different grades of crude and Pennsylvania crude was some of the best. There ain't much if any of that left. The oil we run in our equipment is only a part of crude which has many properties.

 

[†Jonâ€]

Check out the Brad Penn line. Give them a call. There is no mystery oil in it. Just good old fashioned PA crude. Seems this PA crude is how Pennzoil got so big, Wolfs Head, Quakerstate, the whole bunch. All in all good oil is clean oil. I grew up in Oil City PA with hundreds of pumping jacks all over the woods. The PA crude is loaded with wax, this has deemed it as being more expensive to refine in the long run. This is why the refinery in that town that belonged to Pennzoil is now closed and they are refining TX crude. I just refuse to put a synthetic in an air cooled motor. Just to thin and noisy for my liking. To each their own, I am not here to sell the stuff. I am just giving my opinion. Clean oil is the best, I don't care who makes it. I just find it funny that the Moco pushed the HD oil when first of all it is a Citgo product. Its all about the lowest bidder, that is who always wins. Just remember its always the lowest bidder for everything. Explains a lot.

 

[Oak Tree]

I agree with Frog on this. Sounds like the oil got waaay too hot and cooked possibly due to an engine overheat condition.

 

[peno]

Sounds as if the oil was still doing it's job. Dave said when the HD Mechanic took the engine apart, there was no damage!