Date:         Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:08:52 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil
Comments: To: marokus@VOYAGER.NET
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that is a point, that there is more friction with dino oil which causes
heat... and yet dino oil is a coolant... and then synthetic has less
friction and less cooling... so a mix of both could be ideal.. but if it
were, racers, offroad racers would be doing this already... and if it were
ideal there would be an ideal proportion...

then too with racing, is there a build up in heat around the bearings more
so than in normal driving... to a degree that dino makes a difference, where
the amount of friction heat build up requires dino oil cooling, and though
with synthetic there is less friction, there is still enough that without
dino oil cooling the bearings suffer.

so under normal street driving will my bearings last longer with dino oil
ala kendall or synthetic...

mobile one, redline... are 15w50, and 15w50 or 20w50 (redline offers both)

kendall, a great organic oil, also makes a synthetic which is 5w50... has
anyone tried this yet... I'm wondering if it would/could cause oil pressure
problems...




>From: boroko <marokus@VOYAGER.NET>
>
  Somewhere there has to be a balance
>between heat generated by the lesser oil and the heat carried by it.  Not
>very scientific, just observations.
>
>Mark

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