Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 02:10:36 -0400
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <dhaynes57@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <dhaynes57@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject: Re: Diesel Oil again!
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Your owners manual will tell you the minimum oil required by the TDI. The Mobil 1 15-50 will work fine. That engine had something else wrong. Extreme oil thickening can also be caused by antifreeze contamination. There should not be enough soot getting into the oil to begin with to thicken the oil. Also, what was the filter doing? Clogging and bypassing dirty oil? Also how hot was the oil getting? Even with water temps kept normal, oil temp can run away, particularly with miss-applied engines.
Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Townsend <townsend@RTP.ERICSSON.SE>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 1:07 PM
Subject: Diesel Oil again!
Here we go again,
I agree that Delvac 1 is the best synthetic for my Passat TDI. Unfortunately, it is too expensive and hard to get, so I use Mobil 1. Now, I am starting to hear that Mobil 1 15W-50 full synthetic is also not good enough because of soot removal properties! I know that CF is not as high as CH, but I thought it was still good enough for a TDI! Even Shell Rotella T dino oil is only CF, right? So what's the real story here? (I change every 5K miles).
Thanks,
Michael Townsend
P.S. I have put Rotella T in my gas 2.1L Waterboxer before, because it is SJ or something like that. I wonder if there is any huge reason to not do that?
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sullivan <sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: Why my 1.9 turbodiesel died....
Dear Karl,
Mobil 1 is NOT rated for use with modern Diesels. For that I believe you need an oil rated CH-4 or better. Mobil Delvac 1 is the way to go (also good is Amsoil). You can find a lot of info about this on the TDI forums at:
http://www.ufies.org/~fred/forums.html
also try another excellent Diesel forum at:
http://www.vwvortexforums.com/forums.html
Cheers,
MJS
At 02:30 PM 5/10/99 -0400, Karl Mullendore wrote:
>Well, as soon as I began to drain the oil from the engine today (or tried to
>drain!), it became very apparent why it died! In the 7000 miles I drove it ,
>to Oregon and back (fresh Mobil 1 oil at departure), the oil became SO thick
>from soot that it now looks like nasty black molasses.
Michael J. Sullivan
Director of Catalog Design
Open Market, Inc.
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