As we approach summer, it's time to prep our small air cooled engines for the the high temperatures we will be seeing. In my case, I have; 1) A Cub Cadet 1046 lawn tractor with a 20HP, air cooled, Kawasaki engine and 2) a portable, Rigid air cooled generator - 8,000 kw (10 kw peak). Robin Subaru engine. This one is just the ticket for repowering most of the house, for the expected power outages. Some outages have lasted for several days. Both of my oil capacities are 2 qts w/ filter.
Both of my engines call for either a 10W30 or straight 30 wt. I prefer multi weights. I happened to catch the O'Reilley's sale last month (all Delo 4 qt jugs for $12 something). In reading the product literature, I was surprised, that it fared well against competitive HDEO 10W30's, 15W40's and 5W40's, on heat related, and oxidation related testing by Southwest Industries. I'll let someone else post the attachment, that I was looking at. I looked up the flash point, on their product data sheet, which I found out to be 233C (451F).
This 233C figure exceeds all the Mobil 1 30wt oils as well as Amsoil ACD 10W30/SAE30. So must be good stuff, for my application, you think? Maybe your application too. I did find Amsoil ASE 10W30 to have a higher flash point (246). But I am not ready to pay $9/ qt for my small engine oil.
My only question is how Chevron can make a 30 multi wt, CONVENTIONAL oil with a 233 flash point?
Both of my engines call for either a 10W30 or straight 30 wt. I prefer multi weights. I happened to catch the O'Reilley's sale last month (all Delo 4 qt jugs for $12 something). In reading the product literature, I was surprised, that it fared well against competitive HDEO 10W30's, 15W40's and 5W40's, on heat related, and oxidation related testing by Southwest Industries. I'll let someone else post the attachment, that I was looking at. I looked up the flash point, on their product data sheet, which I found out to be 233C (451F).
This 233C figure exceeds all the Mobil 1 30wt oils as well as Amsoil ACD 10W30/SAE30. So must be good stuff, for my application, you think? Maybe your application too. I did find Amsoil ASE 10W30 to have a higher flash point (246). But I am not ready to pay $9/ qt for my small engine oil.
My only question is how Chevron can make a 30 multi wt, CONVENTIONAL oil with a 233 flash point?