Originally Posted By: typ901
Great thread! Reminds me of this SAE Study with GM (Detroit Diesel) from 1988.
http://papers.sae.org/881825/
http://www.shopfiltermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Summary_SAE_FilterMAG1.pdf
I noticed the SAE website is getting really stingy with the preview of their papers. They use to show 6~8 pages, now 1 or 2 which tells you nothing more than the abstract.
Another good reference is the SAE "bus study", which used data collected from a fleet of buses. Conclusion was the better you clean the engine oil, the less engine wear there is. Not a hard conclusion to come up with from the basic logic of contamination and it's effect on wear.
Great thread! Reminds me of this SAE Study with GM (Detroit Diesel) from 1988.
http://papers.sae.org/881825/
http://www.shopfiltermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Summary_SAE_FilterMAG1.pdf
I noticed the SAE website is getting really stingy with the preview of their papers. They use to show 6~8 pages, now 1 or 2 which tells you nothing more than the abstract.
Another good reference is the SAE "bus study", which used data collected from a fleet of buses. Conclusion was the better you clean the engine oil, the less engine wear there is. Not a hard conclusion to come up with from the basic logic of contamination and it's effect on wear.