Oil analysis
For those who are interested.....(don't bother posting regarding the contact info) I'm the least bit worried. None of us are that special. As you can see oil will easily live beyond 1 year. Easily....
Forum Discussion
udidwht wrote:Dale.Traveling wrote:
But the kicker is the cost of the analysis, to include the TBN check, is about the same as an oil change. The savings of extending the change interval based on an analysis is never realised for a gas engine but will be for a diesel when the owner is dealing with oil capacities that can be as much as 5 times that of a gasoline engine.
Getting the oil checked at each change is a good thing to do but you have to be consistent to develop the trend data. Without the trend data the test only provides a brief snapshot of the engine wear. And don't forget the transmission.
For diesels it's flipped. Everyone already knows they can go hundreds of thousands of miles before a tear-down is warranted (all things equal). Cost for analysis is more over the long run.
With a gas engine, get (1) analysis extend your interval, stick with said brand of oil/filter (not every OCI) and the cost is cut and still less over time compared to how many you'd do over the life of a diesel engine.
Also pick an oil brand and stick with it. No reason to gripe over the cost of an analysis from time to time. We're all in the $hole$ the second you drove your rig off the lot.
Without even (1) your guessing.
Buy mine prepaid, 20 bucks a bottle and run all my farm engines and vehicles. If you can change your oil for 20 bucks or even 30 bucks, you need to allude to where you get the oil and filters at.
I pay an average of 22 bucks a gallon for T6 Rotella and that is in a 55 gallon drum.
