Here is mine...if you change oil often, and you should, then why spend the
extra money? My old Chevy truck ran 200,000 miles on Castrol 20W-50 with
the only engine part replaced being a oil pump. I'm cheap so there.
Fred Talmadge
1961 Elva Courier
S1 & S2 Lotus Elan
At 01:47 PM 11/24/2001 -0700, Phil wrote:
>I'm guessing there will be comments all over the board on this one, but let me
>relay my experience with synthetic gear oil.
>
>In my workplace, we have things called vibratory feeders. They have a
>"shaker"
>that is some unbalanced driven weights. One of them burned up the shaker. We
>replaced it with a rebuilt unit (that already had oil on it). It burned
>up in a
>day. We replaced it with another rebuilt unit, and put a thermometer on
>it. In
>12 hours it was over 250F, so our maintenance supervisor called the
>manufacturer. They asked what kind of oil was in it, and indicated that
>synthetic is a requirement. So we drained it, and put in synthetic. The
>temperature came down below 150 in about one hour, and has been on the
>equipment
>for 3 years since without any problems.
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