Re: [Amc-list] Mobil 1 'Delvac' - CI 4 'Plus' -

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Watch out for the LE rating on the oil bottles. That means the zinc has been 
stripped out of it. A number of large diesel engines in CA were ruined when 
it first came out and there is an attempted class action lawsuit going on 
about it. (I can't find the link anymore. It was CARB versus truckers or 
something like that)
   Back in '93 I had an old Datsun 510 that sucked up considerable 
quantities of oil and smoked pretty bad till I changed it to Aeroshell 100W 
(it poured about the equivalent of 50 weight) Worked fine till I drove to 
Calgary Alberta on Valentine's day. Car drove there perfectly, but 2 minutes 
after I shut it off, the oil turned to jelly. I think it was 30F below 
(wasn't much moving out there besides the postmen and taxis during the day 
even. We spent a lot of time in the bar. I washed my hair, reached out the 
front door to grab the mail and my hair freeze dried!) till a Chinook passed 
thru a couple days later and it was springtime suddenly.


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Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Mobil 1 'Delvac' - CI 4 'Plus' -
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans."
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From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)

>i ran 15w40 in my american one winter here [eastern ma] and
noticed
>slower cranking in the frosty teens-temps mornings than with
my usual
>10w30.

My first V-8 car was a rusty 68 Mustang conv, with a 289 oil
burner in it.
Someone told me to put 50W raciing oil in it to slow down the
oil usage! When the temps hit zero it twisted the oilpump drive
shaft off! Me being all of 17-18, I promptly took the oil pump
off the engine I'd pulled out and left sitting in the rain all
winter! I never even took the cover off the pump. I think I
might have run some kerosene or something thru it, maybe even
gas! I installed it in single digit weather  and it worked!
   I swear I was so either broke or stupid that I think I even
put the 50w back in it! Luckily it made it thru the rest of the
winter. I'd driven home at least 5 miles with no oil pressure
when the first pump broke too! I can imagine what that engine
was like inside! Good thing I sold it for money for school...

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different"

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