Re: OD

[Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>]

Hi Rich,

  Well, the OD gearbox has a filter in it.  You want the gook to stay in
the oil so that the filter can grab it.  According to what I read
recently in my Haynes manual, that "suspension" business applies mainly
to carbon byproducts.  That's why the oil turns black in an engine.  The
other additives are there to neutralize the other  byproducts of
combustion.  

  CR

RL Chrysler wrote:
> 
> The way I always understood it, you don't want a detergent oil because by
> it's nature, it keeps everything in suspension and circulating, whereas a
> non detergent oil allows contaminants to settle to the bottom, and stay
> there.

> Rich Chrysler
>