[T3] ZDDP options

[Dennis Stiefel]

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Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [T3] ZDDP options


You will want to use at least a 15-40 weight in a diesel tractor, maybe
heavier if it is really hot when the tractor works hard.

I have had many farming types tell me that the very best oil for hard
working farm diesel equipment is the stuff sold by John Deere under their
own name.  I don't think they are in the oil business, so they likely have
it branded by a major producer, but I don't know who that is.  However all
the local farmers swear by it.  They likely have it made to their own specs.

We have a little 72" John Deere mower powered by a three cylinder Yanmar
diesel engine that works it's little guts out in the summer (runs wide open
for hours at a time), so I break down and buy the John Deere oil for it.
The machine is about 26 years old and has been cutting a 2000' x 80' runway
all that time, and is still on the original engine, and doesn't burn any oil
between changes (50 hours).



At 09:30 PM 1/14/2014, you wrote:

Yea she be doing some hot duty bush hogging in our hot summers. But dad will
use it in the winter some to set hay out for his cattle in the winter. But
our winters are not much and short compared to what you get up there.

Dennis