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Subject:Re: OIL Grade ?
From:Anthony Egeln
Date:Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:46:37 -0700

Change in marketing?  Don't really know if the actual oil is different.

Anthony

Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
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?

>
> Anthony
> '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>
>
> John Rodgers  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!
>>
>>
>> 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 ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Pierre
>> mtl westy 83.5
>>
>>
>>
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