On the oil ...

During the winter (northern Maine) 20-50 just won't cut it.  I'm using
Castrol Syntec 5-50 and it works great.  In that when it's cold the
engine sees the lower number as the viscosity and when it's warmed up it
sees the higher number as the viscosity, it does the job for cold starts
and highway driving.  Unfortunately, I've never found this particular
multi-grade at a Wal*Mart.  K-Marts, however, normally carry it.  Of
course, I only use Mahle or Mann filters.

Mike
Houlton, Maine
'84 GL 7 pass
'85 GL Westy

Jim Felder wrote:
> Just to nitpick further, I had more in mind the Walmart filters than
> the oil. My worst case of the clacks ever came in the middle of the
> summer hauling a big load of furniture to New York. Walmart was the
> only place open to change oil the night before we left, so I thought I
> was doing a good thing getting fresh oil. It was on my return from that
> trip that I consulted the almighty list for the solution, which is to
> do it myself with the right stuff.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 9:49 PM, Sudhir Desai wrote:
>
>>> Our
>>> vans are beyond the day when they can get by on Walmart oil >changes.
>>
>>
>> just to nitpick, you can get 6 quarts of castrol 20-50 at walmart for
>> about $7.40 ;)  (buy it in the big container)
>>
>> :D
>>
>> sudhir
>>
>