German WW 2 Military vehicle motor oils

stencollector said:
I was going to say something similar. The majority of the US vehicles in the early 1950s had dilution gauges on their dipstick. You topped your oil up to it's normal level, then added gasoline to the oil until it reached whatever temperature/percentage of dilution was indicated higher on the dipstick and ran the engine for a minute to mix it. The next day, upon starting, the gasoline in the iol would either be evaporated or burned during operation. Not the best for the engine, but there was a war on and a dead head vehicle was no longer an asset.
Pretty sure this simple technology would have been around during the war as well, and used by all sides that experienced arctic conditions.
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A secondary role for the Viscometer came into play when a degraded supply system dropped off "oil" of dubious quality, maybe the wrong grade? maybe oil from captured foreign stocks? so to get things half ways correct a quick check was called for. The wehrmacht viscometer is a rather rare and pricey thing today
 
STP

Founded in 1953 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the company's name, STP, was derived from “Scientifically Treated Petroleum”. The company entered into the marketplace with one product, STP Oil Treatment. In 1961, the company was acquired by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation.

Oil of Russia

http://www.oilru.com/or/47/1006/
 
Supposedly, when they got around to doing oil changes on T 34 s, there'd be handfulls of metal shavings in the used oil. No room for the finest machining when the enemy is at the gates.

Grizz
 
uglydukwling said:
There were 4 different power plants for the Sherman, 3 gasoline and 1 diesel. The diesel version was 2 Detroit 6-71s.
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there 5 different engines in wartime production depending on what model of Sherman it was but the only wartime diesel was a 9 cylinder radial.

im pretty sure it was the Israelis who used the Detroit diesel's in their modified Sherman's tanks. that's what makes the Sherman so great in my mind easy to do field repairs, crew survivability and so easily modified there were Sherman's still serving small country until as late as 03 with a 60mm high velocity gun
 
antiqueguy said:
there 5 different engines in wartime production depending on what model of Sherman it was but the only wartime diesel was a 9 cylinder radial.

im pretty sure it was the Israelis who used the Detroit diesel's in their modified Sherman's tanks. that's what makes the Sherman so great in my mind easy to do field repairs, crew survivability and so easily modified there were Sherman's still serving small country until as late as 03 with a 60mm high velocity gun
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The radial was an aircraft engine. Air cooled and burned gas.

There are airplanes flying today using the tank cylinder heads made as spare parts. They are slightly different, but work perfectly.
 
XRCD011 said:
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Polish copy post war in green, wartime German in grey with press lettering, 43 dated printed.
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I'm pretty sure green one on picture has Czech writing on it,not Polish.

That one was likely made in Protectorate during war and production continued after May 1945,much like K98,Me-109,other planes,tanks etc.
 
That's like drinking beer from a broken glass and straining the chucks of glass through your teeth!

Grizzly Adams said:
Supposedly, when they got around to doing oil changes on T 34 s, there'd be handfulls of metal shavings in the used oil. No room for the finest machining when the enemy is at the gates.

Grizz
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Ganderite said:
The radial was an aircraft engine. Air cooled and burned gas.

There are airplanes flying today using the tank cylinder heads made as spare parts. They are slightly different, but work perfectly.
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apparently there was a diesel version ... surprised me too

per antiqueguys' link:

The Wright RD-1820 was converted to a diesel during World War II by Caterpillar Inc. as the D-200 and produced 450 hp (340 kW) at 2,000 rpm in the M4A6 Sherman.

VERY interesting - thnx
 
gaff said:
I have a Studebaker aircraft engine, manufactures plate here some were.
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here in Windsor where the new bus terminal is used to be the Packard plant during the war they built the Packard-merlin v12's there. sometime after the war the building was converted into a Canadian tire and was still a Canadian tire till about 2001 or 2002 like almost everything else that's historically significant here it was torn down.
 
I visited the Diamond airplane factory in Kitchener. They had a plane there with a 150 HP diesel engine. Lots of torque to swing the prop and fuel consumption half of my Mooney.

Diesel has some attraction. The Diamond used an engine block from Mercedes. Don't know anything else about it.
 
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