Originally Posted By: used_0il
Bedtime/fairytale;
Your new truck has an 8 liter oil sump capacity
and specifies 5W20 engine oil.
Your old truck with the same engine has a 6.5 liter
capacity and specifies 5W30 engine oil.
After 40,000 Km, your new truck consumes 1 liter of
oil per 1,000km, but uses 10 liters less fuel
in covering that distance repeatedly.
With your old truck, you would change the oil and filter
as per the olm at 13,000km, or about 2,000km per liter
of engine oil.
By the time the new truck arrives at 13,000km, you have
added 12 liters of oil.
Instead of changing the oil, you change just the filter
which holds one liter of oil, and add two liters of oil.
Your oil is never "that fresh" as to strip off, react with
or in other words, upset the chemical balance in the crankcase.
Now Farmer John doesn't know much about organic chemistry,
he just knows what works and doesn't ask why.
Well put! For Sure, thinner oils "are a great resouce conservation", you change a few quarts of gasoline saved and burn a few quarters of engine oil. It takes 160 times more petrol to produce one quart of engine oil than one quart of gasoline ...
That's what some shouldn't be "dividing and ...
Bedtime/fairytale;
Your new truck has an 8 liter oil sump capacity
and specifies 5W20 engine oil.
Your old truck with the same engine has a 6.5 liter
capacity and specifies 5W30 engine oil.
After 40,000 Km, your new truck consumes 1 liter of
oil per 1,000km, but uses 10 liters less fuel
in covering that distance repeatedly.
With your old truck, you would change the oil and filter
as per the olm at 13,000km, or about 2,000km per liter
of engine oil.
By the time the new truck arrives at 13,000km, you have
added 12 liters of oil.
Instead of changing the oil, you change just the filter
which holds one liter of oil, and add two liters of oil.
Your oil is never "that fresh" as to strip off, react with
or in other words, upset the chemical balance in the crankcase.
Now Farmer John doesn't know much about organic chemistry,
he just knows what works and doesn't ask why.
Well put! For Sure, thinner oils "are a great resouce conservation", you change a few quarts of gasoline saved and burn a few quarters of engine oil. It takes 160 times more petrol to produce one quart of engine oil than one quart of gasoline ...
That's what some shouldn't be "dividing and ...
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