Including unprovoked personal attacks...

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Dennis Haynes
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:24 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Oil

It's amazing the crap that people come up with!

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of tom ring
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:37 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Oil

My VW mechanic told me that all flat 4 VW engines should not be running
a
synthetic oil because synthetics don't carry as much heat as regular
petroleum
based oils, and they dispose of a lot of their heat through that nice
finned
oil pan.  I have not verified it, but this guy generally knows his
stuff.

That being said, I split the difference and use synthetic blend unless
it's the
heat of summer.  And that lasts 2 or 3 weeks here in Minnesota.  ;)

tom

On 14 Jul 2003 at 20:21, Laurence Smith wrote:

> Generally 20W50 should be used and only Mann or Mahle (spelling?)
> filters.
>
> Here in Canada we get wide temperature extremes and so I run Castrol
> synthetic 5W50.  "5" is good for really cold and "50" is good for
> really hot.
>
> - Laurence
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Laurence Smith
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> 90 Westy (fanumbos)
> 87 GL / 91 Subie 2.2
> ----------------------------------------
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List
> > [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> > Of David Maurio
> > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:09 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Oil
> >
> >
> > Hey list...
> >
> > When I bought my 85 the PO told me to use 20w30 motor oil,
> > yet most of the
> > posts I've seen suggest that people are using 20w50... I'm
> > in NJ, and it
> > get's fairly hot in the late summer months, fairly cold in
> > the late winter
> > months... I'm going to get the oil changed this weekend
> > (first time since I
> > bought it last week) Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks for all the fantastic info I've gotten so far!
> >
> > David / NJ
> > Former owner of a 76 Westy (sniff, miss ya Wanda)
> > New owner of an 85 Westy Weekender Wolfsberg
> >
>

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Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW  EN34hx
taring@taring.org

"It is better to go into a turn slow, and come out fast, than to go into
a turn fast
and come out dead." Stirling Moss