This weekend the 3-River Region Model A Ford Restorers Club had a garage seminar about motor oil. It was great.
The question of which oil to use in my Model A was a difficult one for me from the beginning. It seemed like there was a lot of conflicting information out there, and I didn’t know what to believe. This may not be the final word on the subject, but I feel like I now have the answers.
Our guest speaker for the seminar was Ken Pyle from PPC Lubricants. He gave us some history on oil in general (I didn’t know that oil native to the Pennsylvania area was the best natural lubricant, and that crude oil from different regions was not all the same), and then we got into the info that we really needed for our cars. (more…)