[Healeys] Let's talk oil some more..

David Porter frogeye at porterscustom.com
Tue Aug 4 08:03:38 MDT 2015


Gary,
  Curious how you arrived at that conclusion ("least likely") given all 
the recent warnings due to reformulation of so many oils...

On 8/4/2015 7:34 AM, warthodson at aol.com wrote:
> Of all the possible causes for a tappet/cam failure the use of 
> synthetic oil seems like the least likely explanation.
> Gary Hodson
> -----Original Message-----from: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
> To: healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Mon, Aug 3, 2015 5:31 pm
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Let's talk oil some more..
>
> Wow ... What weight and brand oil was he using?
>
> Bob
>
> On 8/3/2015 8:26 AM, David Porter wrote:
>
>         Well,
>          Here's a customers TR4 lifter after less than 2 years using
>         synthetic oil. One of them had the bottom broken out! These
>         were new as was the cam, which is also ruined.. just saying..
>         DaveP
>
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