Oil usage? What machinery=what weights

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dodge trucker

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As I have mentioned elsewhere in the site I wound up with more oil than I could ever use from an auction that I went to last weekend and am after some info regarding what brand/models/years/etc would have called for what oils, so that I can figure out where to try and sell off the excess ..
20w20
20w30
Straight 60-HD (have only 2 cases of this)
10w-20w-40 (have only 1 case of this, it's Valvoline)
Type f trans fluid (besides the obvious 10 or so years of Ford cars and trucks)
All of this is in cans, the kind that take the old school spouts ... Some cardboard cans some metal.
 
Well there's 48 cases of QS 20w20HD and 60 (you saw that right) cases of type F so plenty for people to fight about. And 1 pallet of a mix....
Only 2 cases of 10w40 in all of it that, which is
staying right here. There's straight 30 in both detergent and ND, 20w30, about 10 cases of 5w3o, about 6 cases of 10w30, (much of which is also staying)
There's 5 more cases of 20w20, Pennzoil, those are 24 cans each. And about 8 cases of citgo 20w 20. All in old school cans that use those spouts that you have been tossing from one corner of the workbench to the other for years.... No bottles.
And 6 1 gallon cans of 10w, 10 1 gallon cans of 20w20.....
 
dodge trucker said:
As I have mentioned elsewhere in the site I wound up with more oil than I could ever use from an auction that I went to last weekend and am after some info regarding what brand/models/years/etc would have called for what oils, so that I can figure out where to try and sell off the excess ..
20w20
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Wow, 20W20, that must be some OLD ERA oil. It's rare to find oil marked 20W20 vs the modern way of SAE 20W for the straight weight.
The other day, I watch a YT vid of oil in it's original 10W10 75 year old tin container being opened up and then tested for it's performance characteristics. For the era the oil was made in, it held up marginally for the old school grade. Not something I would put in a modern machine today.
 
It's old enough to all be in cans not bottles this is a small small portion of it... I have 60 CASES of type F 2nd pic shows stack of the type F that I have.
I threw away a couple of cases worth of duds empty cans that have seeped out over the years. 3rd pic shows GALLON cans, I have 10 of them in 20w20, and 6 cans like this of sae10w
 

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dodge trucker said:
It's old enough to all be in cans not bottles this is a small small portion of it... I have 60 CASES of type F 2nd pic shows stack of the type F that I have.
I threw away a couple of cases worth of duds empty cans that have seeped out over the years. 3rd pic shows GALLON cans, I have 10 of them in 20w20, and 6 cans like this of sae10w
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Hope you got a great deal on all of it. :) If you did, you have a base for making bio-diesel blending no matter what the grade of oil it is.
 
Some of those number sound familiar from when I was working nights part time at a filling station after school back in the late 50's. QS , Valvoline, and of course Pennzoil were real popular back then. I think I run the 20W20 in my '49 Ford flat head V8. 10 weight would work for jack oil but who has that many jacks.
 
I did a little researching on the 20W20 oil out of curiosity. It sounds like a lot of the old car buffs that still have the original engines use this and it’s not easy to find and can be expensive. Maybe if you found a classic car club nearby or find some restore shops you might be able to unload that oil. Like you mentioned I would definitely keep the stuff you can use.
 
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