I received my UOA the other day via email from Fluid Life. The caveat: I was under no illusion of what I was expecting this to be. The truck had 48,545km on it with 24,238km on the oil. PetroCan Duron SHP 10w30 semi synthetic CK4, CES 20086 approved. So I expected the wear metals to be elevated as there was still some factory fill in there. What I was really interested in was viscosity, fuel, TBN/TAN and soot. This index was using the Fleetguard LF16035. The next change has the Hastings LF608.
Now I tried to attach the report but for some reason it would not upload so I will see what I have to fix. Anyways I had labelled the oil as 10w30 but they tested it as 15w40 and flagged the drop in viscosity. I never received TBN/TAN and now see I have to call ahead to order this as an extra. The viscosity advertised for the oil is 80cSt at 40C and 12cSt at 100C. The oil tested 76.4cSt and 11.47cSt respectively. So at operating temp the oil was holding strong in my eyes. It was still well within the condemnation limits set forth by Cummins for a 30 weight.
Fuel came back at 2.87%, which could account for the slight reduction in viscosity but really the oil appeared unaffected. Cummins specs 5% max so I am still within limits. Out of the 24,000km, about 12,000 is towing. That breaks down to about 1800km with 20k lb and the rest at or near 10k lb. There is a full winter of use, a few unaided cold starts around the -30C mark, the rest having the truck plugged in. We idle a lot in the cold as well.
Soot was .59% which is well within limits. I think they spec 3% max.
I have not spent much time looking at which additives PetroCan uses but they seem close to Fluidlife's typical averages. Zinc was down to 1230 from 1270ppm, phosphorus 987 from 1150, calcium was 1060 from 1070ppm. Now they say these numbers are for the 15w40 SHP but that should fall in the same bracket as the 10w30 SHP.
Potassium was 124ppm, aluminum 45ppm, iron 106ppm, copper 124ppm were all flagged high. Sodium 2ppm and lead 1ppm. While most were high, I am not worried until I have more tests done over the upcoming changes to establish trends. What I wanted to see and did was the 30 weight oil held up well and did not really lose much viscosity with use and fuel dilution.
Now I tried to attach the report but for some reason it would not upload so I will see what I have to fix. Anyways I had labelled the oil as 10w30 but they tested it as 15w40 and flagged the drop in viscosity. I never received TBN/TAN and now see I have to call ahead to order this as an extra. The viscosity advertised for the oil is 80cSt at 40C and 12cSt at 100C. The oil tested 76.4cSt and 11.47cSt respectively. So at operating temp the oil was holding strong in my eyes. It was still well within the condemnation limits set forth by Cummins for a 30 weight.
Fuel came back at 2.87%, which could account for the slight reduction in viscosity but really the oil appeared unaffected. Cummins specs 5% max so I am still within limits. Out of the 24,000km, about 12,000 is towing. That breaks down to about 1800km with 20k lb and the rest at or near 10k lb. There is a full winter of use, a few unaided cold starts around the -30C mark, the rest having the truck plugged in. We idle a lot in the cold as well.
Soot was .59% which is well within limits. I think they spec 3% max.
I have not spent much time looking at which additives PetroCan uses but they seem close to Fluidlife's typical averages. Zinc was down to 1230 from 1270ppm, phosphorus 987 from 1150, calcium was 1060 from 1070ppm. Now they say these numbers are for the 15w40 SHP but that should fall in the same bracket as the 10w30 SHP.
Potassium was 124ppm, aluminum 45ppm, iron 106ppm, copper 124ppm were all flagged high. Sodium 2ppm and lead 1ppm. While most were high, I am not worried until I have more tests done over the upcoming changes to establish trends. What I wanted to see and did was the 30 weight oil held up well and did not really lose much viscosity with use and fuel dilution.
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