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Date:         Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:37:48 EDT
Reply-To:     KimBrennan@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Kim Brennan <KimBrennan@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re:       Syn oil in Converte
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In a message dated 9/6/02 12:31:05 AM, mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

> The man who installed the "new, out of the box" engine, said that > some synthetics can damage the seals, gasgets in the entine and create > leaks. > Grain of salt time.

Synthetics have a better wetting capability than dino oils. They also clean an engine better (older ones especially) and reveal leaks that were plugged with crud from the dino oils. On a new engine that is properly torqued down, they shouldn't leak any more than regular dino oil would. I switched my Tiico (2.0 liter inline 4 engine) on the GoldBrick over to synthetic after 500 miles (the installer put in regular dino oil, I switched after the "break-in" (sic) period.)


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