As an aside, in high school I had a 48 Ford with a flat head V 8. I wanted to treat it good so instead of using regular 30 weight I used a nice detergent 10-30. The detergent cleaned the gunk out of the bearings and engine pretty much fell apart, blowing out so much oil that a could not see out the rear view mirror.
Tom Buscaglia S/V Alera 1990 C&C 37+/40 Vashon WA P 206.463.9200 C 305.409.3660 > On Sep 1, 2019, at 9:00 AM, cnc-list-requ...@cnc-list.com wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:36:28 +0000 (UTC) > From: "Ronald B. Frerker" <rbfrer...@yahoo.com> > To: C&C List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Subject: Re: Stus-List engine oil > Message-ID: <1270410097.716485.1567272988...@mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I'd been told by a mechanic, that one shouldn't put 100% synthetic oil in an > old vehicle that had been using regular oil all its life.? The claim was that > it would clean the engine too good and it would start leaking.It's highly > recommended for newer cars of course.I would presume the same would be true > for marine engines, unless the fact that they're diesels would make a > difference???Anyone else ever heard that story and have heard whether it's > true or not?RonWild CheriC&C 30-1?STL > -------------- next part --------------
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