Oil For Portable Generator
Just ran generator for five hour break end period. Going to change oil, calls for 10-30 4 cycle oil, see that some folks use synthetic oil. Checking with group to see if most use synthetic oil in g...
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westend wrote:
I'm going to guess that a laboratory would have a difficult time proving the same. Given that the engine parts are at the same ambient temperature and that the lubricating oils are at the same viscosity during that brief time event, what magic is there about synthetic?
I'm not doubting your results (makes little difference that I do or not). I'm just having a hard time seeing any magic in either oil product. Even if the synthetic oil had much less "shear", the small event time window of engine start and added starter torque would overcome the slight physical properties. That eliminates time and friction from the start event. What else am I missing?
I couldn't disagree at all except to say I'm far from an expert on internal combustion engines so I have no idea why running synth oil in my genset instead of dino would make such a difference ... but it did, with two different EU2000i gensets. Perhaps someone with greater understanding of the subject would care to shed some light. :@
