Oil analysis and west coast distributor for CLS products

ON-SITE Analysis Machine

It’s all to common a scenario, Your driver notices oil pressure is a little low and makes a note to check it when he’s delivered the load. Five miles down the road there’s a sudden spike in temperature and before he can shut it down there are two connecting rods hanging out the side of what was a perfectly good motor two days ago. Another truck is dispatched to transfer the load and a wrecker is hired to haul in the hurt truck, your mechanic gives you the bad news and when you return to the office there’s an envelope from the lab with the analysis of the oil sample sent in two weeks ago ... high copper and traces of coolant, in the time it took to get the results the oil cooler let loose and a coolant-oil-slurry mixture welded a connecting rod to the crank ... time for a mainframe.
Oil analysis detects problems far enough ahead of time to prevent catastrophic failures, but it is a service often ignored in our industry for many reasons ... mainly because of the inconvenience and wait time.

Enter the guys at Western Lubrication who saw a need for instant results and to take the headaches out of oil analysis. Using OSA machines installed in specially customized Dodge sprinters, these guys are the first people in the world to go where the service is needed most, your facility. They pull the samples themselves and test them right then and there.
Jeff Jensen handles Los Angeles and everything north of there while Ken Jackson works out of Fontana and handles everything south.

We asked Jeff about some of his clients. “The first account we picked up shortly after getting set up almost a year ago was Garcia Sand & Gravel trucking Inc. out of Santa Clarita. I met Bobby Garcia at the trucking show in Anaheim and he was very interested in the technology, the first time I tested his trucks I sat down with his mechanic and went through the results, High silicon but no bearing wear ... this one got a head gasket a while ago, RIGHT! Take a look at your intake on this one, It’s got some dirt and a little too much lead tin and copper ... small crack in an inlet elbow you can’t see but you can feel it if you know what you are looking for. The only way a guy would find that problem is through oil analysis ... or when he tears all that stuff off to rebuild a motor that would have lasted twice as long with early detection. Bobby is a smart guy who is trying to up his profit by being efficient ... glad he found us.”

“It’s not just the smaller companies that are using us either, I met Bob Beasley who’s in charge of distribution for 7UP bottling company of northern California and he had me come up and test the vehicles at one of his facilities and liked what he saw. Bob is a forward thinking guy who understands the value of early detection of problems through analysis and appreciates the ability we have of taking the load off some very busy mechanics, they run a LOT of trucks from long haul to side loaders that do a lot of idling while making deliveries which puts a lot of soot in the oil shortening the useful life of it so we were able to assist in setting oil change intervals based on the condition of oil rather than time or mileage schedules. The OSA machine is a highly sophisticated piece of machinery that can tell us if the oil should be changed or whether it’s good for more miles. Just another way of making profit for these companies.”

Product starting from left to right: Motor Silk Diesel Fuel Additive, Gasoline Additive and Motor Silk Motor Oil

Western Lubrication is also working with used truck dealerships because of their ability to get the analysis done quickly, no one wants to lay out a sizable investment for a truck with a tired engine.

“I had a real interesting one a few months ago, I dropped in to a yard that sold used earth moving equipment and there was a giant Komatsu dozer there that someone had made a low ball offer on because the potential customer had gotten his own oil sample and claimed the engine was bad, they had me test it and that machine was in perfect condition, AND since I can tell approximately how long the oil has been used I know they hadn’t simply changed the oil ... it was a good machine they were contemplating taking a loss on because of some erroneous results.”

Western Lubrication also carries a line of Government patented engine treatments, Jeff says, “We did a lot of research on additives and found something that really works, there’s a lot of snake oil out there and that’s the last thing we wanted to be associated

with. This is really different in that it’s not just

From left to right: Kenneth Jackson, Jeffery Scott Jensen.

another solvent or thickener, it is a relatively new technology that the U.S. government owns the rights to and we have seen consistent and significant results with our customers. We carry engine, trans and final drive treatment and a diesel additive.”

The guy’s at Western Lubrication are knowledgeable and eager to help, “I really enjoy working with these guys, I like mechanics as I’ve been building and restoring musclecars since I was a kid, They speak my language!” He laughs.

And their service is not limited only to big trucks, the OSA machine has just about everything that burns any rendering of Dinosaur juice programed into it’s software and can tell you exactly what is going on inside that thing so if you need them to test your snow mobile while they are at the yard, give them a call.

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