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40W oil causing wear problems over 30w?
As I have said repetedly, we should not be seeing any low air temps. or
engine room temps. "low" temps for engine startup is anything you might normally find for a temp at engine startup, while operating temps are much higher. pull the dipstick on your engine before startup and compare the difference to the same dipstick/same oil after the engine has been run long enough to reach operating temp. |
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40W oil causing wear problems over 30w?
Many seem to disagree on the pelube issue. But I agree it can't hurt.
only "hammer mechanics" disagree on prelube. race engines are always prelubed. wanna hear the difference? start your unrun overnight engine with the engine compartment open and listen to the sounds you hear. let the engine warm up, shut it down and restart, listening again. One hell of a difference in sounds. |
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40W oil causing wear problems over 30w?
Doubt that's much of an issue in this case.
Capt. Bill oh ye of little faith. I drove NYC to Oriental to NYC Friday evening to this morning. Have had nothing stronger than Coca-Cola since Thursday. |
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40W oil causing wear problems over 30w?
Thought of synthetics. But there are warrenty issue with them.
not if they might the standards (most all do, except some special racing synthetics). |
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40W oil causing wear problems over 30w?
Perhaps I misstated. Multi weights oils, as I understand, when they get hot
only thin out to the point that their high weight number would at the same temp. Something about polymers uncoiling into long chains. In other words think of a 15-40W oil as a 15W oil that will not thin more than a 40W would when hot. Like I said, that's my understanding. But, I could be wrong. That's why I asked the question. :-) Capt. Bill That is correct. |
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40W oil causing wear problems over 30w?
here is a an important
difference during cold engine startup. "cold" is 80* outside, in terms of seconds, and seconds, and seconds and still more seconds waiting pressure oil flow to all the bearings that need pressure oil, as far as engine startup is concerned. you can hear the difference in an engine, if you listen. |
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40W oil causing wear problems over 30w?
btw, transmission oil temps usually are not as high as engine oil temps. In
this case, 40W oil is more viscous than 10W-40. In addition, there is a belief (not as much as in the past, but still a belief) that 10W-40 does not _stay_ 40W at operating temps as the engine hours on the oil increases and gets closer and closer to oil change time. Transmission do not suffer from dry bearings at engine startup (as the engine does) because the gears are bathed in oil. |
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40W oil causing wear problems over 30w?
For the transmission application I'd opt to use the EXACT grade, as the
viscosity in this case relates to the "film strength" needed to keep metal-to-metal contact to an absolutel minimum. If you used other than whats specified you are vulnerable to scoring, galling and ..... ability to reduce wear of the gear tooth surfaces. A transmission or gear set is considered an "extreme pressure" (lubrication-wise) application and the oil viscosity (as specified) is VERY important to keep metal to metal contact from ocurring... in this case the oil supports the load between the gears and prevents metal to metal contact ..... only if its the specified viscosity. . In a transmission the reduction in wear is a function of the exact lubricity specified. If the trans. mfg. specifies 40W (Not 10-40W), then USE 40W .... only. For the engine applications, the viscosity enables the bearings (journal - crankshaft) to be lifted to the proper height within their journals, so that the oil supports the shaft precisely at dead center in the journal so that the shafting is in the exact cente r.... and has equal and equidistant clearance (at the higher range of engine load) by the pressure generated in the gallery/pump and somewhat by the viscosity. Why viscosity is important is that viscosity (resistance to flow) will help to support the piston load during the combustion stroke. ........ However, If you are not 'lugging' the engine (low rpm at HIGH load) then using a viscosity index of 1 grade lower than specified ..... should NOT be a problem. If however youre running WOT (wide-open-throttle) and high load ... then it becomes important to match the specified viscosity grade (and operate at the specified engine temp. ... as set by the thermostat.). The short answer: OK to run lower viscosity, just watch the oil pressure to be sure its 'similar' as when running the 'specified' viscosity index oil. In article , LaBomba182 wrote: OK, so I'm sitting around with the captain and his engineer friend on the new boat I'm project managing/co-captaining and we are trying to work out how to run the same weight oil in the engines, gensets and trannys so we only have to fill the clean oil tank with one weight oil and not carry any extra buckets of different weight oils with us. The CAT engines and ZF trannys can use 40W oil as per their specs but the Northern Lights gensets only recommend up to 30W oil. The CATs could run 30W but only at 86 deg. ambient air temps. We will certainly be seeing higher temps than that. I tell the capt. and eng. that based on the ambient air temps we will be seeing even with the Delta-T fans that if it weren't for a warranty issue I wouldn't hesitate to use 40W oil in the gensets. The capt. and eng. disagree. They start saying that running a heavier weight oil could cause wear problems and make the engine work harder over time. And as an example they compare it to what can happen if you use a heavy weight oil in a high revving street/race car. I point out that this is a diesel not a high revving street/race engine. They back off that point a bit but we still go round and round in a civil fashion. In the end we will end up putting 15-40W oil in the tank for the engines and gensets (as per specs) and keeping some 40W in bottles for the trannys. But other than the warranty concerns, I'm I missing something here? Would using 40W over 30W in the gensets with of course changing it at the proper number of hours and making sure that the ambient temps never get low really cause any long term problems? Capt. Bill |
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