tottot
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Recommend me some oil
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You know I was thinking that too, whilst reading your comments ...
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Hi @dag019, I am amazed no one mentioned using Castor oil.
A further option to my previous post is to look at "Super Tractor Universal" which is fine for turbo engines. A couple of well known makers are Smith Allan and Exol, available for under £70 for 20lt.
Suto is what I use for the tractors and my 300tdi
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I drain the oil from the TD5 and use it in the tdi, never had a problem.
I use it in my cornflakes and I bang like a belt fed mortar
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Last week I changed my focus 1800tdci's oil, had an issue with the sump plug in that its sealing washer was fubar and threads not great. To keep car on road fitted a Dowty washer and filled with fresh oil then ordered a new plug/washer.
This morning I drained the oil again to fit new plug and was supprised as to how black it already was after only about 150miles. Comments?
This morning I drained the oil again to fit new plug and was supprised as to how black it already was after only about 150miles. Comments?
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Could it be that the engine has galleries that don’t fully drain so there’s old black oil remaining ?
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Yep that is probably it.
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Snake oil?
Dry fill and wet fill, find out the differenceand that is how much old oil is left in the engine after you have drained it.
Literally just jinished oil change on an mx13, ran for five minutes and oil is black.
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Oil is allegedly 'designed' to stick to metal.. all those little magnets they put in it 
or maybe oil is just sticky 
Anyways, that also means all the grungy stuff sticks too, ends up mixing with the new oil
or maybe oil is just sticky Anyways, that also means all the grungy stuff sticks too, ends up mixing with the new oil
Thank you, that is exactly the sort of answer I was looking for. I am familiar with universal tractor oil as it is what everything on friends farm runs. I will have a look and dig out some specs for it next time I am there, my concern was his newest tractor is early 80's so not sure if it was suitable for the later 200tdi as none of his have turbos.Hi @dag019, I am amazed no one mentioned using Castor oil
A further option to my previous post is to look at "Super Tractor Universal" which is fine for turbo engines. A couple of well known makers are Smith Allan and Exol, available for under £70 for 20lt.
I have been recommended tractor oil for my 200tdi previously. The reasoning was that you won’t find many engines that work as hard as a tractor engine. Kind of makes sense to me….but I’ve never tried it !!
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Just note it's the "super" universal for turbo engines. Most tractors up to the 2000's are fine with it. The latest tractors have all sorts of needs!
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I actually use the correct spec from Smith & Allan, sometimes mineral or semi. Before Covid Eurocarparts used to have buy 5lit get 5lit free so I used them, they don't do it anymore, used to cost £30 for 10 litres.
I generally seem to find Euros are quite expensive for oil these days... For my 110 I'd just buy more oil from ebay (Smith & Allan, Rye, Mannol etc) but for anything else, like my Audi I'd just buy a 5L cube of Fuchs from wherever is cheapest for about £35.
I defo do tend to prefer branded oil but don't buy into the whole Castrol is the best thing, I'm not going to spend twice the price on Castrol oil when I can say get a Fuchs oil of the same spec for less.
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