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Old 02-11-2005, 03:21 AM
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Default All you ever wanted to know about motor oil....and then some

<ul><li><a href="http://63.240.161.99/motoroil/index.html">motor oil article</a></li></ul>
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Thx John, think 103-104 are mandatory reading for the B5 crowd, maybe more sections as I read thru.
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Thanks John !
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Nice find...I'd like to see a similar write up on Tranny/Diff fluid.
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Default Thanks for the link, but I find the write-up very disjointed. Do you think the material

is reliable?

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Default Well, some members on the oil forum may disagree on some finer details, but the

general consesus is that it represent a very good "oil primer"
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Notice that thicker isn't always better.
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He's a BITOG forum member, right?
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Default Yes, but realtively new there. He's also a doctor.

Seems like there are a lot of doctors that are car nuts :-p
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Default what u think about this.. @80-90 degrees outside temp 50W may be goood ;)

i have to try the 5-50 from Castrol..now that looks like a good summer oil.
plus, look at normal runing temps.. they are all pretty much the same (flowing-wise), the difference is when cold (and summer cold is around 70 degrees ..not bad )
what do you think about the idea that @ 70 degrees outside temp for a 5 or even 15W might be same as 40 ot. degrees for a 0w. i may just talk out of my s now ;p


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