Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:49:40 -0700
Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: Engine oil
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My reason for the 10w60 synthetic oil is ….
My engine is old. I don’t know the history before I got van in 2010. I have about 460,000 km on van now. I resealed heads back on 2014.
So you’d guess the bearing tolerances throughout are on the sloppy side.
Everything is good during driving except some particular logging roads we go on in summer. Quite steep and slow, and ambient temps sometimes in the 30C range.
At those times oil temps do climb as expected … and pressure drops.
I thought , think, hope, the new oil being higher weight and synthetic will give American a few more pounds pressure .
Right now with the oil, highway driving, I do see an increase from before. But I haven’t done the real torture test.
Ab
> On Jul 21, 2022, at 3:13 PM, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
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> You sure have been at this a long time,
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> I was asking about the oil because I don’t know what if any differences might be needed for your current engine verses a 2.1 or a GW 2.3.
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> Interestingly, my new 84 was always run on non synthetic 20X 50. They felt synthetic was not a good choice I think.
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> Engine health is good so no complaints about that.
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> I’ve been hesitant to run 15W 60 so I’ll be curious to see what Alistair reports on oil pressure and performance.
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> And, I had to use 10W 40 on the road as no one had Mobil 1 15W 50. And your experience makes me feel better about that.
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> Eric Caron
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>> On Jul 21, 2022, at 5:47 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
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>> I /ran/run 5W40 Rotella T6 in:
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>> Eric, I’ve been at this game a long time.
>>
>> ’82 1.9 Diesel Westy
>> ’84 Adventurewagen with 1.9 wasserboxer - since gone on to live in Charles Kraus’s ’85.
>> ’84 Adventurewagen with 2.0 ABA motor (Same bus reengineer 10 years ago.)
>> ’88 Ford F350 with 460 ci big block
>> ’89 LMC 1200 snocat 200 ci Ford 6
>> '94 BMW R1100RS
>> ’05 Volvo XC70 2.5T
>>
>> The oil well exceeds the specifications for all the above.
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>> It's simply my oil of choice.
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>> I should note that I tried running Mobil One in the wasserboxer above and had foaming problems after 200 miles at 70 mph on a 100º F day. Changed it back to Rotella at the side of the road and had no further problems.
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>> As we used to say on the vanagon list back in the lenti days, YMMV.
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>> Jim
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>>>> On Jul 21, 2022, at 9:24 AM, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> Hi Jim, but you are running a Jetta engine.
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>>> Are people running this oil in original engines?
>>> eRic
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>>>> On Jul 21, 2022, at 11:30 AM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM> wrote:
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>>>> I’ve been using 5W40 Rotella T6 for years and years. Used to be cheap and easy to find. Not so much anymore here in the PNW. Now using Valvoline 5W40 European synthetic.
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 21, 2022, at 5:40 AM, Tom C <thomas.casal@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mobile 1 15w-40 is getting hard to find locally. What do you guys think of
>>>>> the diesel oils like this the shell rotella stuff like this
>>>>> https://www.autozone.com/motor-oil-and-transmission-fluid/engine-oil/p/shell-rotella-t6-diesel-engine-oil-hd-full-synthetic-15w-40-1-gal/354130_0_0
>>>>>
>>>>> 32.99 for 5 quarts is way cheaper than the 9.99 a quart for the mobile 1. I
>>>>> don’t mind paying the extra but if this diesel oil is just as good may as
>>>>> well save a few bucks. Thanks for any comments. Peace tom
>>>
>>
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