Here's the first oil analysis for a 36 year old tractor with almost 8100 hours, the rough equivalent of 491,000 miles. I'm pleased with the results. Kinda surprised actually how good it was, even though it runs like a top. The oil hours are low, and I know I can run it lots more hours, but that's all the work it does in one season and I am hesitant to go longer than 1 year. I've owned it three years now. It had been run on the Case-IH brand of SAE 30 and it had a fresh change when purchased. It slurped gallons taht first season, so I switched to 15W-40 and gradually the oil use has tapered off to about what is noted below, 1-2 quarts a season. It's used for tillage only and is usually puilling hard.
Blackstone's Comments: "This is the first oil we have sampled from an IH D-358 diesel, so we will build and averages file beginnning with this sample. The IH Farmall is a true workhorse and yours is certainly no exception. All the wear metals looked good after your 75-hour oil run. No fuel, water or anti-freeze was present in the oil and it's vicosity was normal for a 15W-40 product. Low silicon and insoluables show good air and oil filtration. The TBN was 11.1, loads of additive left. 1.0 is consiodered too low a reading. Looks like the Shell Rotella-T was working well for you."
Year, Make and Model- 1970 IH Farmall 826
Engine- D-358 (Neuss built)
Hours On Unit- 8,089
OCI- Annual or 100 hours.
Oil Use Interval- 75 hours
Make-Up Oil- 1 quart (was almost 1 quart low at change)
Oil Filter- Wix 56870
Oil- Shell Rotella-T 15W-40 CI-4
Test Results-
(Note: zero readings not shown)
TBN- 11.1
Aluminum- 2
Chromium- 2
Iron- 18
Copper 1
Lead- 1
Molybdenum- 4
Potassium- 4
Boron- 7
Sodium- 3
Calcium 3081
Magnesium- 15
Phosphorus- 1000
Zinc- 1128
SUS @ 210- 77.8
Flashpoint- 415
fuel- insoluables- 0.4
Blackstone's Comments: "This is the first oil we have sampled from an IH D-358 diesel, so we will build and averages file beginnning with this sample. The IH Farmall is a true workhorse and yours is certainly no exception. All the wear metals looked good after your 75-hour oil run. No fuel, water or anti-freeze was present in the oil and it's vicosity was normal for a 15W-40 product. Low silicon and insoluables show good air and oil filtration. The TBN was 11.1, loads of additive left. 1.0 is consiodered too low a reading. Looks like the Shell Rotella-T was working well for you."
Year, Make and Model- 1970 IH Farmall 826
Engine- D-358 (Neuss built)
Hours On Unit- 8,089
OCI- Annual or 100 hours.
Oil Use Interval- 75 hours
Make-Up Oil- 1 quart (was almost 1 quart low at change)
Oil Filter- Wix 56870
Oil- Shell Rotella-T 15W-40 CI-4
Test Results-
(Note: zero readings not shown)
TBN- 11.1
Aluminum- 2
Chromium- 2
Iron- 18
Copper 1
Lead- 1
Molybdenum- 4
Potassium- 4
Boron- 7
Sodium- 3
Calcium 3081
Magnesium- 15
Phosphorus- 1000
Zinc- 1128
SUS @ 210- 77.8
Flashpoint- 415
fuel- insoluables- 0.4
