Post #3358546
2026-06-19 09:40 UTC
@TeflonTrout@beige.party @evedazzle@mas.to @thevhswizard@retro.pizza It's a matter of degrees. What hurts most is frequent starts and stops. I drive 40 km minimum, typically more at once, perhaps once a month.
I've seen clean burning tractors that have run on one oil their whole 3000 hour, 10 year lifetime (after 1st change). If they had excessive wear they'd be smoking at that point due to wear.
What wears an engine down most is any metal particles, no matter how small. Those are less likely to appear with a warm engine.
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@TeflonTrout@beige.party 2026-06-19 10:26
@cohentheblue@ohai.social @evedazzle@mas.to @thevhswizard@retro.pizza Hell yeah, that's like a textbook engineering example of "ideal operating conditions" I use Rotella diesel engine oil in my motorcycle (KLR650) and it loooooves the stuff. Commercial equipment is always so freaking tough, eh? Oil bath clutch though, so another complicator that makes me stick to the typical schedule. Kinda jelly of your service interval tbh