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Jim Wilkins Jim Wilkins is offline
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Default One oil for all engines

On Oct 12, 11:19*pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
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I've heard too many scare stories about too much viscosity
stretchers. *I run the recommended oil in everything (everything I own
takes 10W30 except the new truck, which wants 5W20. *The Turbo wanted
5W30 $ynthetic, but it's now gone).


Me, too. This graduated pouring container from Harbor Freight makes it
easy to measure out the right amount of oil from 5 gallon jugs;

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=96922

I traced the molded lines and numbers with a laundry marker to make
them visible. You could use water from a kitchen measuring cup to
graduate it more finely than full quarts & liters.

Jim Wilkins