Recommended Use Caterpillar.
• Cat earthmoving, commercial, marine* and on-highway truck diesel engines
• Low-emission diesel engines including Cat engines with ACERT® Technology
• Heavy-duty diesel engines made by other manufacturers that recommend API CI-4
PLUS, CH-4 or CG-4 category oil (See “Typical Characteristics” on page 2 for
more information)
• Automotive gasoline engines that require API SL category oils
* Excluding 3600, C280, 3126 and 3116 MUI Marine and MaK diesel engines. The 3116 and 3126
MUI Marine diesel engines with closed crankcase ventilation systems should use Cat SAEO™.
I guess you could say it's an SL oil... It's a diesel rated oil that that also happens to meet SL standards (too).
Because it is a CI-4 PLUS rated oil it will have lower zinc than earlier diesel type oils.
I hope no one thinks that Cat actually "makes" this oil using their own secret lab with their own mad scientists
!..... They've re-branded Chevron Delo, Mobil Delvac, Shell Rotella or similar 15W40 and/or 5w40 oils into their own marketing network. FORD, GM, IHI, John Deere, VW, Mercury Marine, Volvo, etc, etc, do this and just about every other automotive manufacturer too, as have the oil companies with gasoline, diesel fuel and oil for many years....
They would LOVE for their customers to buy all their oil from them. It's just another profit center.
Cheers,
Rick
(I love Christchurch! been there many times in a USAF C-141 over the years......)
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1955 F-600/272/E4OD// Disclaimer: No animals were injured while test driving my F-600 except the ones I ran over intentionally!
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