Wal-mart Outboard Motor Oil

[BillP]

Re: Wal-mart Outboard Motor Oil

Mr.Mariner60,<br />So can you tell us what the extra additives are for in specific terms? And how much extra life they could give an ob? Does decarbonizing do what the extra additives do? If the outboard mfg oil additives exceeded TWC greatly I'd think the TCW rating would be rendered a useless specification. Then the mfgs wouldn't spec it. <br /><br />In the real world, for oil problems, ob motors are getting trashed from from oil delivery(lack of)issues, not TCW quality issues. Even with the old straight 30w @ .25 qt auto oil like already mentioned, we never had all the cooked powerheads as witnessed these days...which seem to point at oil injections not working. <br /><br />Last but not least...according to a friend in the ob warranty world there was no decisive difference in Wally oil vs mfgs premium for wear and tear.

 

[jim dozier]

Re: Wal-mart Outboard Motor Oil

BillP, In the old days you didn't have thousands of 200+hp outboards pushing big boats at high speed either. I was around then and I saw what was on the water and what is there now. Nor did you have chat room forums on which to discover the failure rate of whatever is running.

 

[lakeman1999]

Re: Wal-mart Outboard Motor Oil

Right jimd, when we went fishing back then we usually had either a home built wooden scow, or a rented heavy factory built STEEL (not aluminum) boat, a pair of oars, and muscle. When I was a tad, my dad took me fishing all of the time, yea I was his inboard motor. <br />Now

 

[BillP]

Re: Wal-mart Outboard Motor Oil

jimd, I hear ya but still think today's cheap TCW oils are up to the task...otherwise mfgs wouldn't spec TCW. All I know is it would be nice to see independent lab testing of different brands...evidently, big oil isn't interested in this or we would see it. That leads me to guess they may not want the consumer to see how close oils really are. Just my opinion and would gladly accept being proved wrong. My mind is open, fill in the void.

 

[lakeman1999]

Re: Wal-mart Outboard Motor Oil

In this day and age, for all we know there might be only one plant in the country where oil is bottled, and they put what ever lable on it you want. Used to be companys were proud of their name, and it stood for quality, not anymore, they make a thousand of them, and put their name on a hundred, and whatever you want on the rest. All the same stuff, the only difference is the price. Anyone believes otherwise is a fool. Does anyone know who owns the name "Havoline"? it no longer is connected in any way with Texaco, and I do not think it is affiliated an any way with an oil company. For all you know today, McDonalds may be the owner of Havoline, Mobile Oil, or Esso. Its all a matter of time till if it is a product, the only place to get it will be at Wally's World anyway. No matter what make of refrigerator you buy today, it is made by an old Vacuam cleaner company.

 

[John Reynolds]

Re: Wal-mart Outboard Motor Oil

COnsider this: The law of diminishing returns. i.e., A principle asserting that the application of additional units of any one input (labor, land, capital) to fixed amounts of the other inputs yields successively smaller increments in the output of a system of production. In other words, maybe dumping in more additives past a certain point (perhaps the point required in order to earn a TC-W3 rating?) isn't going to achieve much practical difference, especially when the cost at the input side is considered.