From: James Shanks (n1vbn@bit-net.com)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 14:13:43 PST
The truck I drive at work is a 1992 Mack RD686 Tri-axle dump truck with
498,500 miles on it when I parked it at the end of the season and it has
run it's entire life on Shell Rotella. Funny thing when I was driving over
the road the tractor I was assigned was the oldest one in the fleet and
turned over 1,000,000 miles under my care without a rebuild or teardown.
Sure you didn't have something else wrong that took out your bearings?
Couple million trucks using Rotella daily in the USA can't be wrong.
Jim
At 02:10 PM 1/8/2004, Glenn Shaw wrote:
>Hi
>That is quite a claim re. Shell Rotella oil. Could you give us some
>reference data and sites to look at about this. A lot of us (including
>the Army) use that oil and would like to know more actual data on this
>claim. I am sure that Shell should be contacted as well to see if they
>are hiding something here. It is especially on point since the US ARMY
>once again has bought a ton of this stuff in 30w and 15W40. They ship
>it by the 55 gal drum to the OMS shops here.
>
>Thanks
>Glenn S.
>MVPA
>MTANJ
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
>Behalf Of jalberhasky@juno.com
>Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:55 AM
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [MV] OIL QUESTION
>
>
> I don't use Rotella because of its sulfur content. (it destroys
>bearings by eating the yellow metal out of the Babbit and leaves the
>bearings with a pitted look.) JJA
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James Shanks
n1vbn@bit-net.com
1998 IMZ 8.103
1984 H-D FLHT-C
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