Hey all.

I have a small Bobcat skidsteer with a little three cylinder Kubota diesel. Use it for cleaning barns and such.

I have a weird oil question.

Book calls for 10-W-30 oil in engine but basically the only oil of that type I can find is specified for Gasoline engines.......

Think Gas certified oil is okay to use??

I'd get the Bobcat oil from the dealer but they are FAR away. Don't want to mes up the warranty either, machine has only 300 hours on it.

 

No! do not use a non diesel rated oil. Find something like a 15-40 or a straight weight--30- oil.
You can go most places to get a cd-4 oil or something equivalent.
Walmart auto zone etc.

 

Manual and tag on engine calls for 10-W-30

Try and find that stuff certified for diesel engines.

 

I use 10w30 Shell Rotella as specified on all my Kubota engines.
Both Napa and Wallmart in my area carry it in gallon jugs.

 

I looked for that specifically at Wally world yesterday.

Didn't have it.

I had to get a generic brand.

(supposedly made by Shell and packaged for this particular chain of stores)

 

Hope the generic brand was diesel rated. You really don't want to use gasser oil. Among other qualities diesel motor oil is designed to hold the soot that diesel engines produce in suspension, that's why it gets so black. Gasser oil doesn't do this and soot becomes sludge that settles out in your engine.

 

I run shell rotella in mine, had about 30 different bobcats in 25 years and no problem. I did a research of my own one summer and used several different oils in different bobcats. We run them hard all day on construction and I found some oils to run out like water after 500 hrs. which is what bobcat calls for on the 700 series machines. Shell and MFA oil which may be a local brand only were the best of the bunch. I try to run 10-40 in cool month's and straight 30 in the hot month's. Shell won't let you down in my opinion. I run it in my hydrualics too.

 

Yes, the Generic oil (made and packaged by Shell for this chain of stores)
is diesel certified, approved by Cummins, Cat, Mack, Navistar etc.

 

I run the Rotella in my Kubota farm tractor. No probs so far.
wayne