A Broken Crankshaft ...

Hello,

I would like to tell you about a man that came to my shop a few years ago.

He had told me that he worked as a maintenance person for a local
garbage maangement company - where he was responsible for a fleet of
trucks.

He was introduced to Amsoil synthetic lubricants and used them faithfully
over 10 years.
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When he retired ...
A new man assumed his responsibilities.

and one of his first things that this new fellow did for the fleet
was to change the engine oils - all of them - in the first 90 days
of his new job employment.

New man,
New Job.
New beginning - a clean slate -
To know from where he began.

...
And then he called his predicessor ... now saying ...
what is wrong with all these trucks ...?
They are noisy.
They are loud and running hot.
They all started to use more fuel than they did before.

What do you think is wrong with them?

The other - now retired mechanic from the garbage service
simply asked what he had done ... ?
What changed?

"I changed the oil in all of them - using Rotella petroleum oil."

"Enough said"
That is your problem.
The new mechanic never did grasp what was said to him.
And that was the end of that story ...
Because the new mechanic never would use Amsoil products.
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The rest of this story is that the mechanic telling this story
continues to buy up old Suzuki SideKick kind of vehicles for
$100 here and $200 there.

For over 20 years, he had used Amsoil products.
And the story that he came to me with last year was
that he had a Sidekick that had over 280,000 miles on it.

And that he had never changed the Amsoil synthetic oil in
the motor - filters only - and makeup oil.

And that in late spring last year, the cast iron crankshaft
had simply broken while the engine was running.

Cast iron is hard and brittle - and this is not an unusual thing to happen.
(Sometimes, one can leave a crankshaft standing up on it's end ...
And if someone knocks the shaft over, the crankshaft itself can
actually break or shatter into two pieces.)

I have seen this happen on a camshaft -
at one time or another in the past in my own shop.
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The motion of crankshaft breaking - becoming 2 pieces -
damaged the motor block on the existing engine.
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The whole point I am working to make here is this.
The mechanic I am speaking about - bought another junk motor.

He cleaned up the 2nd motor block.
He removed the piston assemblies - complete with rings with
over 280,000 miles on them - with rod and bearings.

And Main bearings for the original engine.

And reinstalled them over into the second block that he bought.
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Let me make it clear -
he did not hone the cylinders to install new piston rings.

He did Not replace the rod and main bearings.
They were in near new condition - with minimal wear
and minimal scaring.
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The cylinder head was clean - there were no deposits to pull the head apart
to send to the machine shop - to worry with valves or seats having problems
and needing to be cleaned - or reseated.

The head and valve cover gasket areas were simply cleaned up - in order to seal
new gaskets to the block and valve cover.


He caught and strained the original engine oil with 280,000 miles
and
Re-installed it into the built engine that he had put together ...
And today has been driving it for the last 9 plus months.

All with no problem.
All with the same rings, rod and main bearings.

All with the same engine oil that has over 280,000 miles on it -
without being changed.

And without the need to be changed.
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Guys,
If your engine oil is so poor -
That you are told that it has to be changed every 3,000 to 5,000 miles
"lest it destroy" your vehicle's engine.

By all means - Please change it.

For your own sake - change it - learn what it takes to replace
the false security that you have in using petroleum lubricants that do little more
that steal away from your vehicle a very real possible service life of 2 million miles
or more -

You will never have an engine fail -
because Amsoil synthetic lubricants - laid down on the job.
It is a reverse engineered - impossibility.

The mechanic in question is not myself.
And is available by phone - to himself tell the story.
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Or continue to do it your way.

In my opinion -

It only serves the oil companies who have partnered with
the vehicle manufacturers - to - in all likelyhood - until proven
- really proven otherwise, to sell more vehicles and more oil
and more gas - to the masses.

Not to decrease the number of vehicles owned by the
motoring public in their lifetime.

Not to increase our air quality - like Amsoil does do - by keeping exhaust
discharge emissions to a lower production level across the lifetime of the vehicle.

Not to actually decrease the operating and maintenance costs.
But to sell MORE of everything that "they" make -

A sysenergy self sustaining relationship - that falsely teaches
"How to properly care for one's internal combustion engine"

And does create more sales from damaged motors -
"Protected by short life lubricant products"
That seldom get a vehicle past the 750,000 mile mark.
That really seldom cross the 150,000 mile mark - before you the vehicle owner
starts to squirm and worry about what is going to fail - now -

And what it is going to cost you ...
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Amsoil products put an end to this false vehicle service life.
and
Your ongoing worries about high dollar engine replacement services.

You can NOT ruin an engine by following Amsoil's directions for
using their 1 year/25,000 mile service life lubricants -
for the life of your vehicle - 20 years and beyond.

You can ruin it - by using petroleum engine oils.
Just ask Durango owners from days gone by.
Driving down the road happy one moment ...
A rod hanging out the side of the motor block the next.

All with the dealer - claiming that you did not change the engine oil when you were supposed to do ... with you having the receipts in your hand - showing that you did.
... And they did the oil changes for you.!


Rowan Cook
Lifetime Dealer.
http://syntheticlubricants.org/