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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 4845110" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>Cheap oil combined with heavy work, yes. Some oils can lose their viscosity when used in extremely heavily loaded engines and before the recommended service inteval. I had that experience with the air cooled Same Titan on the forager. It runs hotter than most other engines. </p><p>It has 150 hour oil change intervals with filter change every second time. I used to use standard ECEA E2 quality 15w/40 oil in it but at anything over 130 hours of full load work it would turn into something like cat pee quite suddenly and be consumed in massive volumes, like 2 litres between midday and supper time. Changed the oil at the next break, like supper time, and it was good to go again with no consumption. I kept my eye on it so didn't suffer any failure or undue wear.</p><p></p><p>However, when I changed to ACEA E3 oil, I never had that problem again even up to 160 hours service.</p><p></p><p>Next door bought 'green barrel' engine oil with no brand name on it, many years ago, and seized the engine solid on their Ford 5000 within the 300 hour service interval.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 4845110, member: 718"] Cheap oil combined with heavy work, yes. Some oils can lose their viscosity when used in extremely heavily loaded engines and before the recommended service inteval. I had that experience with the air cooled Same Titan on the forager. It runs hotter than most other engines. It has 150 hour oil change intervals with filter change every second time. I used to use standard ECEA E2 quality 15w/40 oil in it but at anything over 130 hours of full load work it would turn into something like cat pee quite suddenly and be consumed in massive volumes, like 2 litres between midday and supper time. Changed the oil at the next break, like supper time, and it was good to go again with no consumption. I kept my eye on it so didn't suffer any failure or undue wear. However, when I changed to ACEA E3 oil, I never had that problem again even up to 160 hours service. Next door bought 'green barrel' engine oil with no brand name on it, many years ago, and seized the engine solid on their Ford 5000 within the 300 hour service interval. [/QUOTE]
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