[Shotimes] What Cause a car to run too lean?

[Kenneth Epperly]

Might be wish I saved where I read it, might have been on Mobil 1 pages.

        Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: <Shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 5:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] What Cause a car to run too lean?


> I believe this is urban legend. A few mfrs have gone to synthetics without
> engine changes. Synthetic or dino looks the same to the engine, it isn't
> "slipperier", it just has more durable heat & wear characteristics.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Kenneth Epperly
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 2:26 PM
> To: Shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] What Cause a car to run too lean?
>
>
> They do hone the cylinders differently for the Syn engine. My daughters
new
> VW Turbo Desiel uses Syn, first 2 oil changes at 5k each then 10k for the
> rest. I will run a shorter intervial than that.
>
>         Ken
>
> > No, it was NEVER proved at all that synthetic has any bad
> > effects on the cams or anything else.  What is going on is
> > that cam lobes have been going bad on cams since the first
> > one was made.  It has to do with the quality of the metal it
> > was cut from, and the hardening process after that or the
> > metal or hardening of the shims or other parts that touch
> > the cams.  Oil is almost never the problem, expecially a
> > quality synthetic.
> >
> > Sometimes it happens, and in the very few cars that have had
> > bad cams (other than V8's!) if they were using synthetic,
> > then either an owner or mechanic jumped to a conclusion that
> > they can't support.
> >
> > When most top manufacturers now put it in at the factory,
> > you can even get rid of the old saying that synthetic is too
> > slick to let engines break in properly.  Add it to the
> > dis-information that synthetics leak more...Not true.
> >
> > Don Mallinson
> >
> > Hartberger, Jason M. AT3 wrote:
> > > Was it proved that synthetic oil caused your cam lobes to go out?
seems
> > > rather like a freak appearance to me... like using plastic windows in
> future
> > > liners because the Titanic hit an iceberg (they didn't do that)... not
> that
> > > I'm dissing your judgement, just seems weird to me.
> > >
> > > Jason
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