Mike Ford - AMSOIL Independent Dealer

Lindsay Premo | Dec 12, 2017 8:42 AM Having grown up in the country, snowmobiles were a common form of transportation. When I was little my dad would tow the toboggan behind our late ’80s (don’t even try to guess my age from that!) machine to the local bar for burgers or through the woods to our skating pond. After the great Halloween storm of 1991 that dumped three feet of snow on Duluth, Minn., the snowmobile was the only way my dad could get us to the end of the driveway to catch the bus. And, of course, when we were old enough to ride ourselves, my siblings and I took the liberty of doing donuts on my mother’s perfectly manicured (yet snow-covered) lawn. So how does one choose the right snowmobile? We polled our resident experts (AMSOIL Dealers, employees, sponsored race teams) to see what they recommend when choosing the right sled. What type of riding will you be doing? Will you be pulling your fish house out to the middle of the lake? Cruising thr

John Baker | Nov 29, 2017 8:22 AM First Signature Series Synthetic Motor Oil , then XL Synthetic Motor Oil . Now, OE Synthetic Motor Oil is our latest oil to undergo a formulation change and facelift. What’s New? Everything. The oil inside the bottle, the label…essentially everything except the name. Excellent Wear Protection The protection the oil delivers is even different, as in better. The added protection is particularly important in the extreme environments produced by today’s smaller displacement engines that often run lower viscosity oil. Camshaft wear, for example, can result in poor valve timing, greatly reducing engine efficiency and leading to expensive repairs. The Peugeot TU3M Wear Test (CEC L-38-A-94), which must be passed to meet the GM dexos1® Gen 2 specification, determines a motor oil’s ability to limit wear. For 100 hours the four-cylinder test engine is subjected to extreme, wear-inducing conditions. AMSOIL OE Motor Oil provided 4