What oil is best? and what ratio?

[bwalker]

Not quite sure how you can just come out and say a statement like this. It just comes down to pure personal preference. You shouldn't bad mouth an oil without having long term usage under your belt. I know personally from talking to several other members in person at GTG's who have used Stihl orange bottle oil for years at 50:1, and never, ever had an issue with a saw. Never had a saw seize using cheap orange bottle oil.
I think personally that you steer members in the wrong direction.
You may be better off just keeping your thoughts to yourself. Just my humble opinion.

I have used it.. and after orange bottle I used black bottle low smoke too.. lots more bang for your buck elsewhere. As I said it's pretty easily the lowest quality saw oem oil out there. Ultra was suppose to be much better than orange by Stihl's own admission and it was FB rated, which is straight out of 1985 quality wise.

 

[bwalker]

I used the Stihl oil for years and it's made by Castrol for them . A fine oil in my opinion , I never saw any issues from it .

Had some cases of oil that had a leaker and soiled the labels so there was always lots of free oil at the warehouse

In the US it's not made by Castrol and its totally different stuff than what you get in CA. I have ran the Canadian stuff when I lived up there but not enough to comment. I used Esso semi synthetic alot while in canada and it was pretty good.

 

[5000+]

I have used it.. and after orange bottle I used black bottle low smoke too.. lots more bang for your buck elsewhere. As I said it's pretty easily the lowest quality saw oem oil out there. Ultra was suppose to be much better than orange by Stihl's own admission and it was FB rated, which is straight out of 1985 quality wise.

What color was the stihl oil??

 

[so il logger]

Hmmm... Orange bottle Dino stihl oil contributed to feeding me all my growing up years. Dad still swears by it.

I'll ask dad tomorrow, but I don't remember him having any saw trouble when I was growing up.

Maybe the key to knowing is actually running the saw day in day out.

 

[so il logger]

Y'all are too serious about oil. This being the oil thread and all....

06 6.0 PSD... What oil? Currently using motorcraft 15/40... With archoil ar9100 friction modifier additive

 

[so il logger]

I have used it.. and after orange bottle I used black bottle low smoke too.. lots more bang for your buck elsewhere. As I said it's pretty easily the lowest quality saw oem oil out there. Ultra was suppose to be much better than orange by Stihl's own admission and it was FB rated, which is straight out of 1985 quality wise.

I'm just honestly curious as to what you was running stihl Dino in and what you were doing with said equipment.

I know fallers that still use it

 

[skidooguy]

Never heard of arch oil additive. I use rev x additive and it's no doubt a huge difference in high pressure oil performance

 

[so il logger]

Never heard of arch oil additive. I use rev x additive and it's no doubt a huge difference in high pressure oil performance

Archoil is more less the same as rev x. I use it to hopefully extend injector life. Its a work truck, not a hot rod, or mud toy. I'm tempted to use t6 rotella next go around

 

[jake wells]

Archoil is more less the same as rev x. I use it to hopefully extend injector life. Its a work truck, not a hot rod, or mud toy. I'm tempted to use t6 rotella next go around

we use 5w40 year round in all the diesels around here they start faster in the winter also.

 

[jake wells]

the 6.0 is rock solid after a set or arp head studs are installed along with a egr delete and straight piping.

 

[so il logger]

Studded, egr Del, and turbo back exhaust. Need to look into coolant filter and blue spring mod. Its a work truck though.

 

[skidooguy]

I ended up going to 5-40 synthetic Mobil esp in my 6.0 and it's been awesome so far. A lot less injector issues in the cold winter months. Rev x did do very well when still using 15-40 tho. Just a bit pricey but worth the money when it saves injectors.

 

[jake wells]

have not ran anything newer than a 7.3 non turbo but have pulled there guts out hauling 30,000
and ripped out reverse and 2nd a few times in the ZF5.

 

[mdavlee]

Y'all are too serious about oil. This being the oil thread and all....

06 6.0 PSD... What oil? Currently using motorcraft 15/40... With archoil ar9100 friction modifier additive

Regular valvoline will quiet them down some compared to motorcraft. The synthetic Rotella did help cold weather starts in the 7.3 I had.

 

[paragonbuilder]

I've been cutting with my friend who has a pre X-torq 372XP, and it's never had any down time. He has used only the Stihl orange bottle oil, mixed at about 50:1 with Quick check Premium E10 gas. From around March to the end of November, we cut on the average of 3 days a week, and that 372 just keeps eating wood. Starts every time, gets pushed hard, and runs strong. All on Orange Dino Stihl! He never tears it down to check how clean his piston top is. He just cuts! He gave me 2 bottles of Woodland Pro that came with chain orders from Bailey's. Don't really know how long he had the saw before we started working together, but it is stock and a beast!

I've used many of the saw oils mentioned in this thread, but never the orange Stihl. I may try it after I use up my current inventory of Poulan Synthetic. Has anyone else just run the Sthil Orange consistantly?

20 years @50:1 without an issue or even a thought. Piston on my 55 still has machine marks. And back then I didn't know what a sharp chain was. Just dog it in and pull. Lol

 

[sawmikaze]

20 years @50:1 without an issue or even a thought. Piston on my 55 still has machine marks. And back then I didn't know what a sharp chain was. Just dog it in and pull. Lol

You mean you didnt use an ester based motorcycle oil at 32:1 with a retadrd fat tune and your saw survived all that time...weird.

 

[paragonbuilder]

You mean you didnt use an ester based motorcycle oil at 32:1 with a retadrd fat tune and your saw survived all that time...weird.

I can't understand it either. Dumb luck I guess!

 

[jakethesnake]

I have a 55 with the same treatment. Looks about like you described been ran that way for 15 plus years

 

[bwalker]

I'm just honestly curious as to what you was running stihl Dino in and what you were doing with said equipment.

I know fallers that still use it

Stihl 044,026 and FS-85 trimmer.

And gee whiz, I suppose I was cutting wood, wood and grass/brush, respectively. .

I also never said your equipment will implode if you use it. It's just there are betters choices out there when it comes to OEM oils.

 

[bwalker]

Hmmm... Orange bottle Dino stihl oil contributed to feeding me all my growing up years. Dad still swears by it.

I'll ask dad tomorrow, but I don't remember him having any saw trouble when I was growing up.

Maybe the key to knowing is actually running the saw day in day out.

Your reading comprehension skills amongst other things are quite poor.
I don't think you have the technical expertise, nor the expiereance to judge the quality of an oil or anything else for that matter.