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I have handed out over 100, "PRICES OF FUEL KEEP GOING UP" sheets of my own mini operation of 5100 gallons of fuel per year. One day when I showed this to a bus fleet manager of 52 buses he commented that if he could realize savings of that proportion, he could save over $4000.00 every 3 weeks. We pulled 6 Five gallon pails of Diesel plus out of my truck and got him started on the next days tanker load of 7200 gallons that was coming in.. Look at "PRICES OF FUEL KEEP GOING HIGHER' document and see the results. $4816 saved on this last fill up.
Guys, this thing is huge! Six of the buses oil changes got started with TKO added last week, and when all 52 are running on TKO, we are going to see this 16 day fuel tanker go to 17, 18, and in six months we will have some fantastic numbers documented with total miles driven in the 16 days too. Most people would have trouble getting documentation like we are getting here because lots of truckers, farmers and companies don't have a handle on it.
This reminds me a lot of Nate Shenks Lube demo with a person giving Nate $28.00 and Nate would hand him $329.00 back, and ask him how long he would stand there and do that? Point Proven!
If you have any questions about these sheets, get back to me quick before I print 1000 of them. I have been asked to go see two larger bus companies tomorrow whose diesel conditioner is not preventing gelling. They are just getting ready for me because our Diesel Plus will prevent gelling and give them four other benefits on top. I showed this to the township salt trucks operation manager and he said he will get Diesel Plus instead of ABC fuel conditioner for anti-gel, now that he sees the dollars he could save!
I would just like to tell any Sales Directors or a thousand IBO's at convention that are not using Conklin Vehicle products, Dahhh???! When we do use them we can all print our own results . In 2 short months I have 20 new customers and over $10,000.00 of Lubes have gone in and out the back of my pick up, car, motorcycle, and a few cases carried to church for people. I can see one day soon that $51 million in sales for the Conklin Company should just be lubes alone. I am sure glad Charles Herbster tells buyers almost weekly that none of our divisions are for sale and certainly not Vehicle Maintenance Products.
Pull up the 2 documents and print them for your immediate use. I will up date the 52 bus operation monthly for your viewing pleasure or huge sales that you can generate for yourself.
Maynard Brubaker
Above is a picture of my pickup and below it is a copy of the latest oil sample taken from it.
This truck is a 2000 Ford F350 Crew Cab with a 7.3 L Powerstroke Diesel engine. It has had Convoy® 15W40 in the motor since new. The radiator has also had Safe® in it since new. Every tank of fuel has had Diesel Plus® in it and it has had 4-Power® every 4000 miles. The only thing that has been done to this engine is the replacement of a cam sensor at around 130,000 miles, and a fuel filter replaced the same time. The reason for replacing the fuel filter is because the gasket had cracked and was leaking, so I replaced the filter too.
This pickup now has over 167,000 miles on it. The oil with this latest oil sample has 68,048 miles on it, and 12,109 miles on the oil filter. No, that is not a typo on the oil filter mileage. I've been busy and haven't had time to change it. Normally the filter gets changed around 3000 to 4000 miles.
This is another example of what Convoy® can do. It continues to amaze me. I am approaching some pretty unbelievable hours on the oils in my John Deere backhoe and bulldozer also. Hopefully I will have some impressive oil samples on those in the near future.
Michael E. Rockhold Sr.
CEO Rockhold Grading, L.L.C.
Eudora, Kansas
- To better understand oil samples, view Ken Bergey's explaination. Jim S.
Ben Welch of Lincoln, NE, owns this '94 Suburban. It has 564,000
original miles. The engine has never been worked on. Convoy 15W40
oil since 1000 miles, doesn't smoke and USES NO OIL!
Fuel Mate Plus ALWAYS (every tank), 2 ounces per 20 gallons of gas.
4-Power Fuel System Cleaner...1 pint every 5000 miles.
Rhino Grease...every 5000 miles.
All front end parts except pitman are original!
Safe Radiator Conditioner...1 pint every 6 months.
Gold Guard Plus...in differential.
ATF XTRA in transmission.
Skip Hoag of Coldwater, MI owns this 1999 7.3 Powerstroke diesel. It has
684,975 original miles. The engine has never been worked on and the original
injectors have never been out. Skip has used Convoy 20w50 oil since new.
Uses little oil, about 1 quart every 11,000 miles. 20,000 mile oil changes.
Diesel Plus Fuel Conditioner ALWAYS (every tank), 3 ounces per 30 gallons of fuel.
4-Power Fuel System Cleaner...1 pint every 7000 miles.
Rhino Grease...every 20,000 miles. All front end parts are original!
Safe Radiator Conditioner...1 pint every 6 months.
Gold Guard Plus...in ORIGINAL differential.
ATF XTRA in ORIGINAL transmission.
Maintenance history...original water pump replaced at approximately 450,000 miles.
Everything else is STILL ORIGINAL!
Click HERE to view the Skip Hoag interview!
4-Power really saved the day for me last week. My wife and I returned late Sunday evening after being gone for over a week. I was planning on leaving on Tuesday for another few days so, needless to say, had numberous things which needed to be done including mowing the grass. I have a lawn mower which is fairly new (in its second season) and had job nearly complete when the mower died like it had run out of gas. I didn't think it was out of gas but checked and found that there was still gas in the tank but wheeled it back to the driveway and filled it up anyway. It started right up, ran about ten seconds and died. After repeating this scene two more times I wondered if the air cleaner might be clogged so I took it off and got a lot of dirt out of it hoping that was the cause of the problem. After reinstalling the air cleaner I started it again, and it ran for about ten seconds and died. Twice more I started it. Both times it ran about ten seconds and died. By this time I was a little frustrated because messing with a lawn mower was something I just didn't have time for. At that point my options were to take considerable time and try to tear it down myself and clean the fuel system or to take it to a small engine repair shop. But then I remembered that I had one more option...I went over to the shelf in the garage, grabbed a pint of 4-Power and poured two capfuls in the tank. I started it up and it ran about ten seconds and ALMOST died then it ran about another ten seconds and sputtered slightly and that was it! It has run beautifully ever since! I really don't know what was wrong and really don't care...I just know that 4-Power saved me a bunch of time which I didn't have as well as a probable repair bill. Thank you 4-Power!!!
Ben Welch, Lincoln, NE.
Audio/Video Clips in Library
- A General Overview of Conklin Lubricants with Ben Welch and Skip Hoag. (24:28)
- Ban Welch and Skip Hoag discuss Conklin lubricants in his Powerstroke 7.3 diesel with nearly 700,000 original miles. (14:54)
- Ben Welch and Buddy Myers discuss Conklin lubes and business oportunities. (6:29)
- Buddy Myers and his 20,000 hour world record 4020 John Deere tractor. This
tractor now has more than 26,000 hours! (31:33)
- Conklin lubricants in sprint cars with Marv Carmen. (15:07)
- Maynard Brubaker talks about a fleet of ten delivery vans, ALL OF WHICH ARE OVER 600,000 ORIGINAL MILES!! (2:58)
- Conklin Lubricants in Small Engines with Mike Mapes, Michigan. (2:23)
- An Interview with Ray Katzdorn, Mechanic, Colorado. Ray talks about 4-Power®, Diesel Plus®,
Gold Guard Plus® gear oil, Dike® TKO® Oil Conditioner, Fuel Mate Plus® and Convoy Oil®. (14:56)
- Richard Shara demonstrates Conklin Lubricants with the extreme pressure machine. (15:59)
- Transmission technician Mike Avery works on a transmission owned by Skip Hoag. The transmission has over 685,000 original miles with Conklin's ATF-XTRA®: Transmission Fluid. (28:26)
- A telephone conference call hosted by Dennis Nun.
Participants in "Lubes for Farmers" include Buddy Myers, Rich McPhillips, Skip Hoag and Jim Jarosz. (43:00)
- A telephone conference call hosted by Dennis Nun.
Participants in "Truckers Secrets" include Tom Jackson, Brian Hibbs, Skip Hoag, Ben Welch and Bill Sanne. (49:00)
- Water in the Oil...Mechanic Randy Bloom with Dale Nobbman. (6:08)
- Oil Analysis with Ken Bergey. (13:58)
- Mechanic, Randy Bloom, discusses Rhino Grease®. (1:54)
- Tom Eicher of Eicher Excavating, Fort Wayne, IN, shares how Conklin's Luboil®
is extending the life of his JCB backhoe. (2:37)
- Jim Jarosz tells about his experience with a leaky radiator in a farm pickup. Dike® to the rescue! (2:01)
MY SURBAN HIT THE TRIPLE NICKEL!!!! My Suburban turned over 555,000 original miles as we were coming into the Los Angeles area Sat. night. I know it's not really possible but I think it's running better than ever. Sometimes at a stop sign I have to glance down and look at the rpm guage to make sure it is still running because it is so smooth. There has never been a wrench on the valve covers or the oil pan...it is ORIGINAL! It still burns no oil (even on start-up) thanks to Convoy 15W-40, Fuel Mate Plus in every tank, 4-Power every 4-5,000 miles, Safe in the radiator, Gold Guard in the differential, and ATF Xtra in the transmission. Every single front-end part except the pittman arm is still original as well thanks to Rhino grease! (About three hundred thousand miles back, the power steering unit was leaking and the fluid dropped down on the pittman arm and took it out in short order. Instead of replacing the power steering unit with a new one my mechanic put about an ounce of Translast in the power steering unit and the leak stopped in a couple of days.) The current set of tires have 84,000 miles on them and still have a few thousand miles of life left in them so the front end parts are, obviously, in pretty good shape!
Just north of Las Vegas, we ran into heavy rain and I really appreciated RAVE...I had EXCELLENT visibility without using the wipers thanks to RAVE on the windshield. (The first time one encounters heavy rain after applying RAVE for the first time get ready for an almost surreal experience.) RAVE makes traveling in rain conditions much safer!
Ben Welch, Lincoln, NE.
Battalion - Parasynthetic Hydraulic Transmission Fluid and Enduro,
the companion product that conditions the Battalion for extended
drain intervals.
I could give you several testimonies on these products, however,
today I want to share just one with you. We own a John Deere 3010,
3020 and 4020 and other newer John Deere tractors. Most all of the
older model John Deere tractors will develop wear at the bushings
and shaft where the three-point hitch arms attach under the tractor.
We had that experience a few times before we started using Battalion
and Enduro.
Concerning our "4020" (The Conklin Classic) . . . we had changed
those bushings one time in the four years prior to using Conklin
products in that tractor. If my memory serves me properly, we
changed them once in the 3020 and two, maybe three times in the
3010 and a shaft in the 3010, also. Since we started using Battalion
and Enduro, WE HAVE NOT HAD TO CHANGE any bushings or replace any
shafts in any of these three tractors in the past 32 years!
Protect your investment in your tractors and equipment with premium
quality Conklin Lubricants and Conditioners. These products will save
you big bucks and extend the life of your equipment far beyond what
is considered normal.
Buddy Myers
I have a Ford mini van that was running pretty rough. It was running so rough that if I stopped at a light, it would die. I had to keep my foot on the gas pedal just to keep it running. I used bottle after bottle of STP. I would’ve been better off throwing my money out . . . it did as much good. I took it to a mechanic and I about flipped when he wanted to do a complete engine flush which would have cost me between $800 to $1,000. Then I heard about 4-POWER. After about 4 cans of 4-POWER about a year ago, my van runs great. Thanks to 4-POWER, I was saved several hundred dollars. I have put in one can since then.
M.W.
I took a weed eater to be fixed. The shop could not fix it and told me the weed eater was history. I took it home because I had heard about 4-POWER. I poured a little into the gas tank and figured what did I have to lose? Within minutes I was cutting weeds with a weed eater the shop could not fix. The weed eater works fine since! My weed eater was fixed for less than 50¢. Conklin doesn't waste your money, it helps save money!
James Eicher
I have been using FUELMATE in my Toyota Rav 4 for over a year now
and the difference is more than noticeable. I average 38 miles plus
per gallon on the highway. I traveled this summer from Leo, IN to
Pittsburg, PA . . . around 385 miles . . . and I used less than 3/4
of a tank. The mileage that trip was right at 40 mpg. FUELMATE has
saved me way more money than I will ever spend buying it. By the
way, my Rav is a Full-time 4X4!
P.S. Before FUELMATE, I averaged 29-30 mpg.
Adam Mundy
I bought an air compressor that was hard to start. I put in some 4-POWER a couple of times and what a difference. I add FUELMATE every time I fill up. CONKLIN products are great products!
E.L.
A Lubrication Tip From Buddy Myers on Luboil®
We Conklin IBO's are always finding different ways to use these awesome
lubricants. For over 30 years we have used Luboil on Sealed Bearings!
We simply squirt Luboil from one of the handy 22 oz bottles onto and
around the sealed bearing each and everyday we use a piece of equipment
with sealed bearings. We have never had a sealed bearing go bad if we
could get to it with Luboil. Sealed bearing will most generally go
bad because dirt has gotten into the bearing. Keeping the bearings
coated with Luboil prevents the seal from drying out, causing the
bearing to get dirt and dust into it, making it fail.
In our shop, you will find several 22 oz bottles of Luboil and Rust
Bomb hanging on the wall, ready for use when needed. What is a
container of Luboil worth? I don't really know...I can tell you
this, it is worth a whole lot more than what we pay for it!
P.S. Here is a tip from a fellow IBO. DO NOT use Luboil as a
cutting oil. He was drilling holes in metal and ran out of cutting
oil. He thought he'd just use some Luboil. The first thing he
noticed was the bit was not drilling as well, so he pushed a little
harder on the drill. The harder he pushed the more the smoke
rolled...Luboil was protecting that metal from friction! Amazing!
Buddy Myers
I like the RUST BOMB. It really works well. I would like to see more people use it.
A.S.