| Re: Recycled motor oil |
Subject: Re: Recycled motor oil by Touringmike on 2008/5/3 13:22:04 Quote:
Well, Let's re-hash this stuff. Back in 1969, I had a '62 Grand Prix, that was a notorious oil slurper. This was back in the days of straight weight oil, no multi-viscosity crap back then. Gas was $0.239/gallon, down as low as $0.199 during gas wars (which was every other day back then), and I was earning $1.10/hour as a Ice-cream scooter driver (3 wheeled Cushman scooter- kick start, 3 speed manual hand shift, foot pedals). When I used to put gas in the '62 pig, It was always fill it up with oil, and check the gas. Usually $2.00 to get half a tank, I always bought 2 quarts of re-refined motor oil. It was listed as 25W. It was solient green in color, but it looked clean. The cost was somewhere around $0.25/quart, much cheaper than the $0.50/quart for the new 30W in a can. The re-refined stuff was bulk, had to pump it out of a tank with a hand pump. That crap kept my old jalopy running for damn near a year. It was still running fine when I sold it, it just had a slight problem with one of the valve studs popping out of the head. I used to weekly remove the valve cover, and hammer the stud back in. Good for 2 quarts of oil, and 8 gallons of gas. The car got about 10mpg. (389/4bbl/4 spd - first year of the fully synchronised T10 Rock crusher - had a 3-2bbl setup in the trunk. Couldn't afford to gas the pig up)  |
