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| | | | Joined: Dec 2022 Posts: 87 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2022 Posts: 87 | Hope this is a good place to ask this oil related question.
Your low on oil, either in your Stove bolt or modern motor, you don't know or remember what weight or brand you used last time.
How bad is it to mix brands or weights?
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 2,208 Insomniac | | Insomniac Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 2,208 | Mixing brands is no big deal IMO. Here we have Pennzoil, Quaker State and Shell all coming from the same refinery! Never pay full price - one of them is on sale.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,889 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,889 | Oil is oil- - - -it's better to have a mixture of some sort than to run low. I'd even run cooking oil in a real emergency- - - -rather than trash an engine! Just change it as soon as possible.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 6,969 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 6,969 | I was way low on oil once and all I had was a gallon of Dexron ATF with me. I put 2 quarts in the engine out of necessity with no illeffects.
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,889 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,889 | A couple of my high school buddies had an oil leak one night, and approached a home at random to ask for help. An elderly lady answered the door, and one of my friends asked for some oil- - - -"We'll take any kind of oil- - - -even castor oil!". "No, son, I don't have any castor oil, but I can give you a good dose of salts if you want it!" They politely declined her kind offer- - - -in a hurry!
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2018 Posts: 282 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2018 Posts: 282 | Hotrod Lincoln- The instrumental version of that would be Del Woods’ “ Down Yonder”
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Please , no offense meant, Jerry, I just remember your story about your aunt
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~Charley 1954 Chevy 3100 with 235“Bud”Follow along in the DITY1963 Chevy half ton stepside short box 230 1954 GMC 3 ton 302 And several more Chevy camper and work trucks 1979 1987 1996 | | | | | Joined: Nov 2020 Posts: 789 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2020 Posts: 789 | Just don’t use or abuse Olive Oyle or you’ll get on the wrong side of Popeye! | | | | | Joined: Jun 2022 Posts: 559 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2022 Posts: 559 | Back in '68 soon after I got my license, my Aunt Roxana visited with her month-old baby, on her way back to Spartanburg ( a four hour drive.). Dad had me drive her back, catch a bus to Charleston and ride with my uncle to my grandma's. Her Bonneville was a quart low, so I asked her what oil did she use. Her reply was... "I don't know... Wesson Oil?" I poured in a quart of HD30wt Quaker State and we drove off.
~~ Jethro 1954 3100Back to LifeIn the Dity Gallery1951 3100 (gone) / 1956 4400 (still in the neighborhood) / 1957 6400 with dump body (retired) / 1959 3100 panel (in the woods junked) / 1978 Custom Deluxe K10 / 1993 S-10 4.3 / 2004 Chevy Crew Cab / 1945 John Deere H / 1952 John Deere B / 1966 John Deere 2510 / 1967 John Deere 1020 | | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,462 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,462 | I was way low on oil once and all I had was a gallon of Dexron ATF with me. I put 2 quarts in the engine out of necessity with no illeffects. ATF does a nice job of cleaning things.
BC
1960 Chevy C10 driver 261 T5 4.10 dana 44 power loc
1949 GMC 250 project in waiting
1960 C60 pasture art
Retired GM dealer tech. 1980 - 2022
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 734 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 734 | I'm pretty sure Dollar General doesn't own a refinery but they manage to get their name on retail bottles somehow. It all comes from the same place(s) no matter the brand name on the bottle.
Matthew 6:33 1952 Chevy 1/2-ton 3100 Late '55 235/SM420/torque tube 3.55 Dalton Highway survivor (using original 216) www.truckwithaheart.com | | | | | Joined: Nov 2021 Posts: 1,412 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2021 Posts: 1,412 | Mixing brands is not a bad thing but they are definitely not all the same. There are a number of different oil chemistries that can meet the requirements to get an API license. As Jerry said, a mix is better than running low but if possible use the same brand to prevent unintended concequences of chemistries that do not blend well. Dollar General and other name brands are just that, brands. They have a sourcing agreement with an oil producer to provide a product with their name on it. Unfortunately you have no way of knowing if they changed sources so I prefer to stick to oil company brands. | | |
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