I guess I did the wrong thing, then, when I put Mobil One into my Dodge
van's crankcase in place of the Castrol 20-50 I'd been using for the
previous 75K miles.........It sure as heck smoked and the oil consumption
went from zero between changes to 1quart every 600 miles! Obviously, I
should have just poured the stuff on the exhaust manifolds.......
Lawrie
> From: Mike Lishego <mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>
(SNIP)
> At one point, I was running synthetic oil in my Plym*uth, and as I
> was filling up, I spilled a big helping on the exhaust manifold.
Expecting the car
> to erupt in smoke, I fired her up with the hood up to watch the stuff
burn off. The
> funny thing was, it didn't smoke! It just kinda boiled and evaporated
off, leaving a
> little brown mark on the mani. Does this mean that a car filled with
synthetic won't
> smoke? Another thing I saw was less oil consumption with synthetic oil.
> Michael S. Lishego
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