barry rosenberg wrote:
> Has anybody heard that they removed Zinc from most new oils and that is
> one of the problems with the majority of oils and our old bearing material.
> I have been told that the new car bearings are designed to work without the
> Zinc but our older bearings that we seek so hard to find and pay dearly for
> do not work with the newer oil compounds. What does the Zinc in oil do
> anyway? Barry
>
Barry,
One of my <other> vices is motorcycling. Oil quality/content is a
common topic on motorcycle boards. The word from the cycle guys is that
to get a higher zinc content (although I don't know if its as high as it
"used" to be), you need to use "Racing" motor oil, motorcycle oil, or
diesel motor oil (Shell Rotella, etc).
Hugh
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