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Subject:BAD OIL Again!
From:Eric Zeno
Date:Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:43:33 -0500

DAM!   Last summer I was changing oil in my 1986 Syncro,
and put in Mobil regular oil.  To make a long store short,
I had a lot of trouble with the 20-50 weight oil being to
thin when hot.  It would set off the oil light and buzzer.
    Once again, 1 1/2 years later I'm having the same problem.
Start it up cold, no problem, 15 minutes later, oil pressure
problems.  Is my the engines going bad?  Or maybe the
engine oil is changing and will not run in the vanagon
engines anymore?  I can't imagine my GEX rebuild was
going bad 1 1/2 tears ago and now later it is finnally
getting worst.  I'm changing the oil  and filter tonight
prematurelly.      Comments?
                                          Eric