On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 14:06:58 -0600 Ray McCrary <spook01@mindspring.com>
writes:
Ray,
Is the 20/50 then a rating of the load bearing index when oil is hot
and the 20 the index of cold oil dripping out of the engine?
Have you any load bearing index ratings of various oils to compare?
Bob
>Back to something of importance; I called the friendly folks at
>Castrol
>about the oil pressure difference between the Valvoline and Castrol.
>It
>appears that the oils are rated as to the load bearing ability at
>operating
>temp range and not at the pour index when hot. When cold, they are
>rated
>at only the pour index. It appears tht the load bearing index is the
>most
>important thing, both hot and cold. I cannot swear to the above, but a
>similar story was told by the guys at Pennzoil.
>
>Regards, Ray
>
> At 09:37 PM 11/11/97 -0500, Trevor Boicey wrote:
>>Ray McCrary wrote:
>>>
>>> Phillippe,
>>>
>>> There are some terminally sensitive people out there....or is that
>>> 'thenthative'? Oops.
>>
>> Great. Like we don't have enough nut cases on this list
>>now we have a resident homophobe.
>>
>>--
>>Trevor Boicey
>>Ottawa, Canada
>>tboicey@brit.ca
>>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>>
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