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stabilize your fuel and protect your engine in storage

Store Equipment With Confidence AMSOIL keeps your stored equipment fresh for our Omaha spring. Fall is the time to think about getting summer equipment put away before winter hits. Preventive maintenance is critical before storing equipment for any extended period of time. Properly storing equipment through the cold winter months protects the engine, prevents rust […]

Metal Protector Spray

8 Awesome Uses for AMSOIL MP (especially number 5) Steve Hull Everyone is aware of the multiple dimensions in which human beings live. There’s the physical dimension, the emotional dimension, the spiritual dimension, the psychological dimension and so on. And there are layers of dimensionality among and throughout. We get that, intuitively, if not academically. […]

AAA Testing

AAA TESTING AFFIRMS SUPERIORITY OF SYNTHETIC MOTOR OILS AMSOIL introduced the world to synthetic motor oil in 1972, and we’ve been extolling the benefits ever since. While we’ve been joined by many vehicle and equipment manufacturers and competing motor oil companies over the years, the American Automobile Association (AAA) is the most recent company to […]

Not same as Royal Purple 25 micron

Your Oil Filter Questions Answered John Baker|Oct 16, 2017 11:59 AM In theory, your oil filter has a simple job: capture wear-causing contaminants and hold them in the filter media so they don’t run amok throughout your engine. But lots of factors can throw a wrench into this plan, which can raise questions about oil […]

AMSOIL INTERCEPTOR® Synthetic 2-Stroke Oil (AIT)

Demand makes it easy to Sell AMSOIL Synthetic Snowmobile Oil Join us as a dealer and take advantage of our dominance in the sledding and other markets. Believe it or not, winter is right around the corner. When talking to snowmobilers this season, make sure to uncover their needs and recommend the correct AMSOIL snowmobile […]

Skid Steer accessories

The 8 Most Useful Skidsteer Attachments Josh Kimmes|Jul 25, 2017 10:50 AM As a young farm kid, before I could operate the tractors, I had to pick rocks and sticks in the farm fields. I sometimes unearthed boulders that would have broken the blades on the tiller immediately. I remember always thinking, “This can’t be the […]

Amsoil Pro

Transmission maintenance requires a shift in thinking Like motor oil, transmission fluid must now do more. Matt Erickson | TECHNICAL MANAGER – PCLT PRODUCTS AND MECHANICAL R&D What’s more important to your vehicle, the engine or transmission? It’s a trick question; they’re equally important. You’re not going anywhere without either one. But which do people […]

Fight Ethanol Problems

Solving ethanol issues before they arise The fuel some love to hate isn’t the problem – letting gasoline sit too long is the real problem. Len Groom | TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER How did an alternative fuel made mostly from corn grown in the Midwest become a political lightning rod? Whatever the reason, ethanol is always […]

Amsoil presidents Dean Alexander and Alan Amatuzio.

Always Pushing the Performance When AMSOIL synthetic motor oil passed the American Petroleum Institute (API) qualification tests in 1972, it signaled a new era in lubrication performance. Nothing else could touch it. As the only API qualified synthetic on the market, it out-lubricated, out-cooled, out-cleaned, out-lasted – it outperformed in every category. Our company founder, […]

motorcycle wet clutch

How to Protect a Motorcycle Wet Clutch (and How it Works)  John Baker|Jul 19, 2017 10:14 AM A 10-mile trudge down gravel roads more trafficked by mosquitoes than people. That’s the situation I faced after dumping my Honda 350 motorcycle on a patch of loose gravel. Back then (the mid 1990s), cell phones were a […]

Not same as Royal Purple 25 micron

Synthetic Oil Filters vs Regular Oil Filters Ed Newman|Jul 26, 2017 8:51 AM Early automobile engines didn’t use oil filters, or air filters for that matter. For this reason frequent oil changes were a must. Motor oil quality wasn’t really that important in those days, anyway. It was the discarded by-product of processes designed to […]

Corvairs Need High Zinc Oil

Flat-Tappet and Camshaft Lobe Lubrication This is the Technical Service Bulletin relating to AMSOIL’s main high zinc and ZDDP oils as discussed on a recent video posted on YouTube. OBJECTIVE: Provide facts outlining the lubrication requirements of flat tappet camshaft engines and the importance of higher levels of zinc and phosphorus. ISSUES: Flat-tappet camshafts undergo […]