WheelHouse Technologies oil and coolant analysis partner POLARIS Laboratories™ has officially launched HORIZON® 4, its newest version of the web-based data management software application that has been the company’s comparative advantage in the marketplace for the past decade.  Horizon, which has been seamlessly integrated into WheelHouse since 2008, provides improved data analysis through a customizable [...]

When was the last time you changed the hydraulic fluid in your stabilizer system or integrated hydraulic system? If the answer is more than three years ago, are you using hydraulic oil analysis to check the condition of your hydraulic oil? Unlike crankcase oil systems, hydraulic oil systems are “closed systems” that minimize or eliminate [...]

The most common cause of wear in a diesel engine is contamination of the crankcase oil. The number one contaminant is “dirt.” Seen on the oil analysis report as elevated silicon, dirt enters the engine through a perforated or filthy air filter, a leak in the air intake piping, or faulty oil change procedures. Small [...]

How often should I take an oil sample on my propulsion engine or generator? We get this question quite often. The simple answer is “at each oil drain.” The power of oil analysis isn’t in a single sample-it is in observing the trend over time. For example, if you were to sample an engine’s oil [...]