At 12:13 AM 11/5/96 -0600, you wrote: >on the fact that old motor leak, and synthetic contribute to this leakage >by causing the seals to contract (actually they don't expand as much with >synthetic as with dino-oil). > Craig, The leaks experienced with synthetic oil is caused by the higher detergent effect of synthetic oil and the fact that it cleans all the dirt which had been acting as a sealer. Arlyn
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Craig Standley cstand@u.washington.edu >University of Washington http://weber.u.washington.edu/~cstand >Physics >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Arlyn Strano 800 777 1831 Strano Foreign Car 814 849 6305 Fax 68 White Street arlyn@ncentral.com Brookville, PA 15825 96 Honda Civic 91 626LX 5door 82 280ZXT 83 280ZX 69 912Targa Soft Window A large insurance bill
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