oil weight
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From: Columbia South Carolina
oil weight
This is directed to members living in the Southeast.What weight engine oil do you use,and do you use it year round ?thanks in advance for any responses.
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Re: oil weight (page62)
Yeah, but would you run something that slippery in a 23-year-old L82 with 56K miles? Thought Mobil1 was for newer engines...
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Re: oil weight (tankman)
I see that this post is for those in the southwest, but I just want to point out that in my New Owners Manual it warns against running any weight below a 40 weight at highway speeds for an extended amount of time. Thus, if you use 10-30 then you might be seeing some engine damage to your bearings due to the oil being too thin and squirting out of the bearing race. This doesn't apply if your motor has been re-engineered with tighter bearing to journal clearances and new teflon coated bearings installed.
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Re: oil weight (Rockn-Roll)
those 30 year old owners manuals are out of date for todays oils. unless some bubba put in large bearing clearances 5W-30 should be used because the thicker oil blow open the oil filter bypass when you start a cold engine and allowing dirty oil into the engine. the quicker you get the oil moving the less wear your engine see. it is your choice dino or syn oil but i use mobil 1 in my 88 truck with100,000 miles and it still uses no oil between 4000 mile oil changes. :chevy
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Re: oil weight (clem zahrobsky)
those 30 year old owners manuals are out of date for todays oils. unless some bubba put in large bearing clearances 5W-30 should be used because the thicker oil blow open the oil filter bypass when you start a cold engine and allowing dirty oil into the engine. the quicker you get the oil moving the less wear your engine see. it is your choice dino or syn oil but i use mobil 1 in my 88 truck with100,000 miles and it still uses no oil between 4000 mile oil changes. :chevy
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Re: oil weight (tankman)
I run 10w30 Mobil One in my 82 with 75K on the motor. Not a drop used between oil changes, year round. But been running that since day one when a new motor installed three and one-half years ago.