Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:54:08 -0700
Reply-To: wilden1@JUNO.COM
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Oil
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I've been to Minnesota and "I got to tell you, golly, gee, those olde
Swedes are smart fellows".
Somebody was doin' sumpthin right, you van is still running.
Stan Wilder
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:36:45 -0600 tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG> writes:
> My VW mechanic told me that all flat 4 VW engines should not be
> running a
> synthetic oil because synthetics don't carry as much heat as regular
> petroleum
> based oils, and they dispose of a lot of their heat through that
> nice finned
> oil pan. I have not verified it, but this guy generally knows his
> stuff.
>
> That being said, I split the difference and use synthetic blend
> unless it's the
> heat of summer. And that lasts 2 or 3 weeks here in Minnesota. ;)
>
> tom
>
> On 14 Jul 2003 at 20:21, Laurence Smith wrote:
>
> > Generally 20W50 should be used and only Mann or Mahle (spelling?)
> > filters.
> >
> > Here in Canada we get wide temperature extremes and so I run
> Castrol
> > synthetic 5W50. "5" is good for really cold and "50" is good for
> > really hot.
> >
> > - Laurence
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Laurence Smith
> > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> > 90 Westy (fanumbos)
> > 87 GL / 91 Subie 2.2
> > ----------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Vanagon Mailing List
> > > [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> > > Of David Maurio
> > > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:09 PM
> > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > > Subject: Oil
> > >
> > >
> > > Hey list...
> > >
> > > When I bought my 85 the PO told me to use 20w30 motor oil,
> > > yet most of the
> > > posts I've seen suggest that people are using 20w50... I'm
> > > in NJ, and it
> > > get's fairly hot in the late summer months, fairly cold in
> > > the late winter
> > > months... I'm going to get the oil changed this weekend
> > > (first time since I
> > > bought it last week) Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the fantastic info I've gotten so far!
> > >
> > > David / NJ
> > > Former owner of a 76 Westy (sniff, miss ya Wanda)
> > > New owner of an 85 Westy Weekender Wolfsberg
> > >
> >
>
>
> ------
> om Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW EN34hx
> taring@taring.org
>
> "It is better to go into a turn slow, and come out fast, than to go
> into a turn fast
> and come out dead." Stirling Moss
>
>
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