30 Weight Oil - Major Brands Who Sell It?

[hotajax 223]

I know about Rotella and Kohler oil.  Are there other brands out there?  Plain old straight weight 30 oil.  Not trying to turn this into a "best oil" discussion.  Thanks.

Edited August 12 by hotajax

[ebinmaine 67,397]

I use Kinetix because it's inexpensive, delivered to my place, and meets the criteria we need. 

If not for that I'd likely go to the above mentioned Rotella.  

 

[Mike'sHorseBarn 2,998]

Pennzoil sells SAE 30 and tractor supply has there brand of it too. I use Rotella though.

[ri702bill 8,311]

Yup - Rotella conventional oil, not synthetic.

[tunahead72 2,412]

NAPA carries several brands:  Their own brand, Valvoline, Pennzoil, Shell/Rotella, ..., whatever's your pleasure.

 

[953 nut 55,163]

10 hours ago, Mike'sHorseBarn said:

tractor supply has there brand

Tractor Supply is the best as far as I'm concerned, auto parts stores don't carry much in straight 30 because cars don't use it,  but tractors do. 

[adsm08 2,046]

Almost every brand of oil will have an SAE-30.

 

There are only a few companies that bottle the stuff in the US. They just brand the bottles for the others.

[Toby Stockman 70]

I use Wolfs Head oil in all my tractors seems to be a western NY thing I also use there gear oil and red grease

Edited August 13 by Toby Stockman

[hotajax 223]

1 hour ago, adsm08 said:

Almost every brand of oil will have an SAE-30.

 

There are only a few companies that bottle the stuff in the US. They just brand the bottles for the others.

I'm from eastern PA.  Where is Dillsburg?

[bds1984 1,429]

12 hours ago, Toby Stockman said:

I use Wolfs Head oil in all my tractors seems to be a western NY thing I also use there gear oil and red grease

 

We have that here in Michigan, too.  I've never used the 30W variety, but their 15W40 is great stuff.  Many of us who use store brand oils (region dependent) are using Amalie bottled oils (Wolf's Head).

[lynnmor 7,303]

17 hours ago, 953 nut said:

Tractor Supply is the best as far as I'm concerned, auto parts stores don't carry much in straight 30 because cars don't use it,  but tractors do. 

TSC did have HD SAE 30 Traveller brand with a SJ rating, just right for our gasoline engines.  I still have some, but the new flavor may be SN (description on the website is confusing), so you can pour it thru a catalytic converter and put it on your ice cream.  They also have a diesel 30 weight oil if you don't care about having the oil rated for gasoline engines.

[adsm08 2,046]

22 hours ago, hotajax said:

I'm from eastern PA.  Where is Dillsburg?

 

About halfway between Harrisburg and Gettysburg.

[Artmilaca 23]

On 8/12/2024 at 11:01 AM, tunahead72 said:

NAPA carries several brands:  Their own brand, Valvoline, Pennzoil, Shell/Rotella, ..., whatever's your pleasure.

 

Napa's own brand is Valvoline or so I was told by the store manager

[ebinmaine 67,397]

8 minutes ago, Artmilaca said:

Napa's own brand is Valvoline or so I was told by the store manager

 

One of our local Carquest stores was told his Fram oil is Amalie.   

[Brockport Bill 1,661]

How about the Kohler oil with zinc additive designed for their older Kohler engines 

[RED-Z06 2,221]

As long as its not "sae 30 non-detergent"...sae30 is not terribly common anymore, its disappearing like sae20 did, which used to be pretty easy to find.  Sae30 does still come in diesel flavors in some stores, usually 2.5g jugs, its fine to use diesel oil in gas engines.

[lynnmor 7,303]

This article provides some information for those that want to experiment with using oils that aren't produced for their application.