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Well after looking for the last hour for a gallon of way lube that I know I bought from MSC, I think I accidentally used it in the super a when I changed the engine oil after the big snow. After I changed it, it was put away and I havent run it since.

I know I received the way oil, I found the packing slip along with some other things from MSC but can"t find the oil.

Since I havent run it since, except to drive it to the barn, I"m thinking that it"s most all drained down into the pan and all I need to do is let it all drain out and change the filter.

Wonder if way oil would have any affect on the new front neoprene main seal or anything else in the engine? It"s a much higher viscosity, high pressure lubricant

What a dumb a$$, any thoughts? Think I should change the oil out 2 times to get it all out, run it in between?

scott#2
 
(quoted from post at 04:03:40 09/06/10) Well after looking for the last hour for a gallon of way lube that I know I bought from MSC, I think I accidentally used it in the super a when I changed the engine oil after the big snow. After I changed it, it was put away and I havent run it since.

I know I received the way oil, I found the packing slip along with some other things from MSC but can"t find the oil.

Since I havent run it since, except to drive it to the barn, I"m thinking that it"s most all drained down into the pan and all I need to do is let it all drain out and change the filter.

Wonder if way oil would have any affect on the new front neoprene main seal or anything else in the engine? It"s a much higher viscosity, high pressure lubricant

What a dumb a$$, any thoughts? Think I should change the oil out 2 times to get it all out, run it in between?

scott#2
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Not a problem. I'd drain the oil and change the filter. Fill her back up with 15-45 and let her go. The seals will be fine. The neoprene is some pretty heavy duty material and will take a beatin'.
 
Ways are precision flat surfaces that slide over each other. Lathes and milling machines have them. I suppose there are tubular ways as well but a sleeve and piston in a tractor would not be considered a way.

Anyway, I don't see a problem. I would just replace the oil and filter once unless the way oil and engine oil curdle in a test cup when mixed.
 
Even though this sounds like a smart %ss answer, way oil is for oiling ways. Ways are what Wardner said. I think way oil is probably a closer relative to hydraulic oil than it is to motor oil. It probably has some EP additives to prevent chatter at slow speeds, some anti-foam to deal with lube pumps on machine tools.

It probably isn't anywhere near as bad a mistake as the guy that put spray oil in an engine.
 
Hmmm, I always thought ways were what a ship slides down when it's launched. That's where the term "grease the ways" comes from.

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Just in case you didn't do what you thought you did. Do a color and smell test on the engine oil. A Way oil Like Mobile Vectra will be root beer color, where as an engine oil will be greener and probably more clear, I would put a drop of your engine oil from a bottle on printer paper, and a drop from your lower petcock next to it. then a third drop of way oil.
I also do not think it hurt anything.
Jim
 
Yep, if you looked down the table of a lathe, the ways would look similar, and the ship would be the tailstock LOL
 
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