Hmmm, I wonder if you'll see much benefit at this point. I mean, depending
on how many miles you have accumulated on dino oil, it's arguable that the
wear and crud distribution has already occurred. Running synthetic starting
after a full rebuild seems reasonable (it certainly seemed to work in your
example), but I would suspect it's a waste of money on a high-mileage
engine. Though you could take the attitude that it can't hurt...
Speaking of burning money, on Monday I put $20 of gas into the B and was
utterly disgusted to see that it didn't even move the needle up to the 3/4
mark -- in fact, it was barely over 1/2. I guess I need to get to work on
that hydrogen fuel cell conversion, like the guy in the novel.
on 7/28/04 9:24 AM, ptegler@cablespeed.com at ptegler@cablespeed.com wrote:
> I can't comment specifically about the difference
> between the Castrol Syntec and the Mobil 1 but I
> do need to put in a word here for the Mobil 1.
>
> I've always wondered if using Mobil 1 was worth the
> cost or not. But while recently restoring a 72 MGB
> more a client, I was stunned when I opened up the rocker
> cover of an engine that had 100K+ miles on it and it
> was absolutely clean! 165 psi +/-2 in all cyls....
> and this engine has NEVER had any work done it.
> It's been running Mobil 1 since it first came on the market
> way back when.
>
> The internals of this engine impressed me enough, (having
> seen it's usage results first hand) that I did just recently
> drain and flush my own engine and fill it with a fresh
> load of 20/50 Mobil 1.
>
> Paul Tegler
> ptegler@cablespeed.com
> www.teglerizer.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles & Peggy Robinson" <ccrobins@ktc.com>
> To: "David Councill" <dcouncil@imt.net>
> Cc: "James Nazarian" <jhn3@uakron.edu>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Oil for Overdrive Transmission
>
>
>> Huh! Well, that's good argument for switching to synthetic oil. I
>> wonder what the difference is between Mobil 1 and Castrol Syntec full
>> synthetic. Castrol is a bit cheaper but it may not mean anything.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> CR
>
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'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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