Dad's old oil advice

[fdcg27]

You can try this and it might help.
It certainly won't hurt.
We've had 200K engines on their originally recommended grades with minimal consumption and we've had much younger engines with consumption on any reasonable grade.
A little thicker will never hurt and might reduce consumption or might not.

 

[userfriendly]

And the free orange filters the 20W50 came with.
Totally against my own advice.
I can go through 20 liters of chain bar oil in a year and always running out.
Or put 5 liters of GTX 20W50 in the fuel tank with every fill up of 130 liters.
That is how I got rid of 200L of stale dated Telus 22 and 32 over a 2 year period.

 

[SS1970chrysler]

My father was a straight 30 man all his life. When it came to multi-grade oils, he said to use the ones with the smallest difference in numbers from xxW-xx.
For what its worth, he still had his 1st car (a 1941 Studebaker Commander) at his time of death and drove a '53 Ford F-100 daily. He passed in 2007.

 

[userfriendly]

A 53 with a three on the tree?

I drove a 76 Chev truck up until a few years ago with a six and a three on the tree.

I learned not to attempt shifts in an intersection because at least once a week the linkage would get stuck between gears, and there I'd be under the hood with just my feet sticking out trying to untangle it.

Most of you would be too young to remember.......

What was I talking about?

 

[SS1970chrysler]

Originally Posted By: used_0il
A 53 with a three on the tree?


Nope, but I do remember those. His truck had a floor shift with a really long throw and it always lurched pulling out in 1st gear.