what oil for cat pumps
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Wally
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Chevron Turbine Oil ISOGST100. Get from your chevron dealer in five gallon buckets. About the same price as oil for your car. I`ve ben using this since the first oil was taken out of the pumps and some of the pumps are over 25 years old without any bearing problems.
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I use just the straight HD-30 you can get at any parts store, never a problem.
MEP001
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I have used a 3:1 mix of non-detergent 30WT and transmission fluid to remove water from the crankcase after repairing a customer's pump, and found years later that they left it in with no issues. It's what I always use in General pumps now, mainly because it doesn't foam like plain ND-30.
washnvac
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I agree with Randy. I have been in the biz since '94, and have always used CAT oil. Why does it seem a lot of people want to use something else? I have 310s, 623's, 823's, and 5cps. I change the oil every 8-10 months religiously. No problems.
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There's nothing wrong with using Cat oil, but it is always in short supply for me. It's no ones fault but mine, but I don't see any sense in paying twice as much and shipping on top of that when the off the shelf stuff at bumper to bumper works just fine. Since I've only had one Cat crankcase failure (using Cat oil) in my nearly 40 car wash years, I see no need to have several bottles of overpriced oil sitting on my shelf collecting dust.
BTW, I virtually never change the oil. In a nutshell, the crankcase is nearly bulletproof and will last practically forever with virtually no maintainence.
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