On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Anthony Egeln wrote:

> I'll second this one...believe that Mobil now calls this one  
> "Extended Performance"....has a gold cap.

I just put exactly 4.5 quarts of Mobil 1 15-50 in my westy-4 qts w/  
gold cap, 1.5 qts w/ silver cap from 2 different cases I had laying  
around. What's the diff?

Tom B.-synthetic or dino oil, tires or batteries, what thread can we  
abuse next?

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> Anthony
> '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>
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> John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote: I'm running Mobil One  
> Synthetic 15W50 with a Mahle oil filter.
>
> Works good for me, and keeps the Vanagon Lifter Syndrome  a bay.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 G:L Driver
>
> Pierre Monette-Dorais wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am back from a 8000 miles trip from montreal to san francisco  
>> and back.  Fortunatelly, we had no mechanical problem during our  
>> trip even with the 120F in las vegas ..except 3 tire blast!
>>
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>> We did some oil change during the trip and i'm now due for another  
>> one and i'm still wondering what is the best oil grade for a  
>> Vanagon 83 1.9L Watercooled ?
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>> Thanks
>>
>> Pierre
>> mtl westy 83.5
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