Chalkley owns several vehicles and pieces of equipment that have benefitted from his use of AMSOIL products. He uses a 1993 Dodge pickup truck with a Cummins engine to haul loads of more than 25,000 pounds. He also has a 1997 Ford Contour and an earth mover back hoe. I use AMSOIL in everything, Chalkley said. I have never worn out anything that has had AMSOIL in it.
He put AMSOIL Series 3000 5W-30 Heavy Duty Diesel Oil in his 1996 Volkswagon Passat at about 10,000 miles, and put AMSOIL 75W-90 Gear Lube in the transmission shortly after. The Passat now has over 278,000 miles on it and its still running the same gear lube. Chalkley changes his motor oil in the Passat at 50,000 mile drain intervals. Theres no by-pass kit on it either, he said, and Ive never had a problem. Not a one.
(Editors Note: AMSOIL recommends a drain interval for the Series 3000 5W-30 Heavy Duty Diesel Oil that is up to two times longer than manufacturers recommendations in passenger vehicles with diesel engines if extended drain intervals are supported by the findings of a used oil analysis program, or six months, whichever comes first.)
Chalkley adds nearly a quart of oil every 4,500 miles, and has noticed that oil consumption hasnt changed in the six-year-old car at all since he switched to AMSOIL. In fact, oil consumption actually improved since that time. Its not burning any oil, he said.
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AMSOIL in Big Air Compressors ^TOP^
AMSOIL
satisfyong customers for over 19 years
In
1987, I was the Maintenance Mgr. for a refinery in
the Corpus Christi, TX area. A friend of mine, named
Jerry, had just run on to AMSOIL and was real excited
about what it had done in his truck, so I put into
the truck that I was driving at the time. I did a
lot of driving for the U S Navy all over the Southern
States. So when I did put the oil into my truck the
temperature on the engine dropped a lot and just barely
got of the Cold mark. I drove down to the Hot city
of Laredo to inspect the Navy Reserve Center here.
That was during the hot summer and the temp. in that
place was hot, but the truck temperature still stayed
just off the cold mark.
That
convinced me to try this stuff on one of the units
at the refinery. I picked a spot that run hot and
did take a lot of maintenance to keep it running.
I selected the plant air compressors. These were driven
by electric motors and they were 150hp. I looked up
the record for the first ones history. It had run
approximately three months at a time and then usually
had to come down for an overhaul. The exhaust air
temperature was usually between 160 and 180 degrees.
So
I ordered the crew to drain he oil sump and put in
this stuff that Jerry had brought over and I had tried
in my truck.
I
did it without the consent of anyone above me in refinery
management. I knew that if the thing went down and
the crew told the plant mgr. what I ha d done without
his approval I would be looking for another job. I
had seen it work in my truck, so I thought that it
should work in any other piece of rotating equipment.
Well,
was I and the crew surprised. The electrical load
on the motor dropped almost 20% and the discharge
temp. on the air dropped down from 160 to 130 degrees.
I have to say that I was excited about what happened,
but I was afraid to say much because I had done this
without permission of anyone.
I
just left the oil in the machine and watched the operating
logs to check for a change in the operationg conditions.
The thing ran without a shut down for six months.
I got a little worried because it was now overdue
for a downtime for over twice the time it normally
took for a turnaround.
We
did take it down and found that the wear on the machine
was much less than normally on a three month's run.
I did not say much to management until the unit operations
sup. came in and said that we had tried some new oil
that we'd heard about at a seminar some time back
and were testing it. I showed him the logs and he
was pleased over the increase of the run time and
only wanted to make sure that we did not tear up the
unit with these experiments.
I
can only say that this was one real great trial for
me, and I am sure that anyone who would try this in
their units will have the same results that I had.
Buck
Shaw
Director,
Physical Plant
Texas
A&M International University, Laredo, TX.
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ONION CREEK CLUB
| Luis Sanches, Jr. |
| Golf Course Maintenance |
| Head Mechanic |
| 280-7931 |
| April 30, 1999 |
Onion Creek Golf Course is one of the primier courses in the country. We have had tournaments here that have been seen by millions of people on national TV. It is critical that we keep the course in excellent condition all year long for our players and guest. AMSOIL helps us do this.
As head mechanic over about 50 pieces of equipment since 1985, I can say with authority that using AMSOIL in all of our machines since April 1990 has made it much easier to take care of everything. Since I often talk with guys at other golf courses, and know what they are doing as well as the problems they are having, I know we have much less trouble and failures with our equipment than the golf cuurses that are not using AMSOIL. We all use similar equipment but not everyone uses AMSOIL, and this is the reason our machines hold up so good.
The cost for the oil and hydraulic fluid is more initially, but the savings in maintenance, the cooler operation, the fact that this units are so clean inside and have very little wear all makes the cost of the oil not so important as the performance and protection it gives us. One product that is really is the 2 cycle oil, with the 100:1 mix we just use one ratio for all engines, so our little 2 cycle engines in several brands, like Stihl and Echo, just keep purring with very few problems at all.
We use the 15w-40 Heavy Duty Diesel and Marine Oil in all of gas and deisel engines.
Some people may not know that at a golf course like Onion Creek we now seven days per week on some parts of the course. We can easily put 1,000 hours per year on our mowers. If anyone uses their equipment that much they better be using AMSOIL or be prepared to buy some more equipment pretty often. We plan on keeping our machines in service at least 5 years or more.
Thanks too for the easy ordering and fast delivery. This makes my job easer.
Sinceraly,
Luis Sanches, Jr. ^TOP^
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