04-23-2017, 01:23 AM | #41 |
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Re: Oil change
If it's dello le, then it does not have zinc. I don't think you can buy the old dello anymore. Thanks
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04-23-2017, 01:28 AM | #42 | |
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04-23-2017, 02:14 AM | #43 |
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Re: Oil change
Before I drain my engines oil I drive the car around for 15 minutes or so, to heat up the oil. Oil drains a LOT easier when it is warm. It drains faster and more thoroughly. While the oil is draining, I stand on the running boards (one at a time) and 'jiggle' the car from side to side to help 'slop' the oil from cavities, etc.
I then kick myself when I discover that I forgot to put the drain pan down ! I then collect the used oil and put back into quart oil containers, to 'repurpose' it as chainsaw bar oil. Lots of 'kick' about how this is NOT a good thing to do. But then some people go to the end of the block, looking for a crosswalk to cross the street. I just wait for the traffic to clear and then walk across the street - without the crosswalk. And I have been using 'repurposed' engine oil on my chainsaw bar-chain for 50 years, without incident. |
04-23-2017, 06:37 AM | #44 |
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This thread is 4 years old. Since then the fordbarn scientists discovered zinc is not needed in our A mills
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04-23-2017, 06:58 AM | #45 |
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Four years old and I didn't contribute and with all my Model A knowledge too.... Must be getting old, now I can't remember all that knowledge.
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04-23-2017, 07:11 AM | #46 |
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04-23-2017, 07:26 AM | #47 | |
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04-23-2017, 07:39 AM | #48 |
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In the ole days, we used to buy used oil at the service stations for 10 or 15 cents a bulk quart. The guy would hand pump it out of the drum into a metal oil van with a spout from the drum all the oil change oil was put in...it would settle out! Probably not a lot of ZDDP in it! But it was oil and it was cheap. My dad was born in 1924.
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