Tag: oil analysis

Maintenance

Cease work and turn off the engine when you see these red flags on an oil analysis report

Oil analysis can show you trends in the health of your engines and oil. It can also tip you off to eminent catastrophic failure. If you catch these problems early enough, you can fix the underlying problem, drain and refill the crankcase with new oil, and monitor the results with further oil analysis, saving thousands […]

March 19, 2020

Maintenance

Oil Analysis: Why it’s the best way to tell if your engine is healthy

Lubrication is the life blood of mechanical equipment. And just as our body’s blood can become anemic or experience an imbalance of blood cells or platelets that signal biological issues, the equipment’s ‘blood’ can show signs of wear and contamination. Where hematology is the science of blood, tribology is the science of lubrication, wear and […]

November 21, 2017

Construction Equipment

5 Ways To Screw Up An Extended Oil Drain Interval

1. IGNORE YOUR SERVICE TECHS There are a lot of numbers and reports to watch when setting up an extended oil drain program. In doing so, a fleet manager can run the risk of ignoring what his technicians in the field are experiencing, says Richard LeFrancois, a heavy equipment fleet management consultant. LeFrancois says he […]

March 15, 2016

Pickups

Two-Millionth Oil Analysis

Hamm Inc’s engine oil sample puts Universal Lubricants lab past the two-millionth oil analysis

April 30, 2013

Home

Oil analysis in the Tier 4 era

With EPA emissions compliant engines everything’s the same – just more intense.

January 1, 2013

Pickups

Shop Talk

If you’ve purchased a diesel truck anytime since 2007 you need to read your owner’s manual very carefully about oil changes.

February 1, 2012

Business

Maintenance

5 Questions you should ask before launching an extended drain interval program By Tom Jackson To meet the many new exhaust emissions regulations, diesel engines have undergone more changes in the past eight years than in the previous 50. The good news is the new engines still crank out plenty of torque-heavy power and do […]

September 4, 2011

Business

Maintenance

Online Oil Analysis Whether you have one machine or thousands, online reports beat paper anytime. By Tom Jackson The fundamentals of oil analysis haven’t changed much over the years, but in the past decade the emergence of online reporting of oil analysis results has given fleet managers a great set of tools to do more, […]

March 24, 2011

Pickups

Extending Oil Drain Intervals

Using oil analysis is a good maintenance move for anyone using pickups for business

July 26, 2010