John,

I was not recommending 20/50, but straight 50 weight (you could even try
60!).  It is available at NAPA stores, and will not hurt your engine -
you've nothing much to lose anyway, right?

Karl Wolz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of
> John Runberg
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 8:48 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: death of a 1.9 :(
>
> I appreciate the thoughts.
>
> The van currently had 20w50 Mobile 1 synthetic in it with the correct
filter. Because
> of a sticking lifter I tried the MMO routine, however this only made
the oil preassure
> issue worse (duh). I'm going to try 20w50 dino just to see if I can
get a little more
> out of the engine, but as Bob says -  this one's toast.
>
> The interesting thing, however, is that the van runs very well (after
the cold idle
> problem goes away) and has plenty of power. Oh, well.
>
> john