Synthetic is made from mineral oil but with many refining stages
before they add the different additives. In other words, they clean
away the junk first. Some of these oils have more aggressive
cleaners that eats away bad gaskets. Mobil 1 is reasonably safe to
use in most "broken in" engines.
Thomas
Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us wrote:
> What the heck is synthetic made out of, anyway? Dollar bills? Certainly not
> olives/organics/etc if it's synthesized.
>
> Fred - So.SF
>
> ____________________ Reply Separator __________________________
> Subject: RE: Synthetic oil (long)
> Author: "Patrick J. Horne" <horne@cs.utexas.edu>
> Date: 2/15/2001 2:59 PM
>
> You don't have to drain the oil to change the filter. The oil in the engine
> is blocked on one side by the oil pump and on the other side by the oil
> oil galeries in the engine. When you spin off the engine you will lose
> little more oil than what is in the filter, which will cause the iol to need
> topping off any way.
>
> I would prefer to move away from dino based oil and go to something that
> is more earth friendly.
>
> Peace,
> Pat
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