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Car Forum / Ford / Ford Mustang / August 2003

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Oil question: syn to non-syn to blend and back again!

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Nick D. - 17 Aug 2003 04:55 GMT
Hi all,

A general question: what are the rules for changing oil types. I can never
seem to get it straight...can you change from standard to full synthetic? At
what mileage? Is there any point at which changing to synthetic can be bad?
Can you change from full synthetic to standard?

You get my gist.

Thanks in advance!

- Nick
Andrew Paule - 17 Aug 2003 05:41 GMT
If your car is not in the first couple of hundred miles (use the oil
that came with it to do initial break in), change to whatever your
want.  It's all compatible - question is why do you want to use
fossoil?  Synthetics are a much better choice (unless you are leasing
the car and are not going to keep it - then do what ever), why do you
think that posche, bmw, ferrari, and almost every real race car runs
em?  They are better - send some oil to spectrol (lab in ohio(?)) to
figure out how fast your bearings, guides etc are wearing - cheaper in
the long run and will give you less wear in your motor.  Regular oil is
cheap in the short run, but you are obviously interested in cars, and if
you run a mustang, you can make it last by doing proper maintainence -
I've regretted selling mustangs, never will again.

Andrew

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Nick D. - 17 Aug 2003 19:50 GMT
I'd heard something about switching to synthetic in a much older engine
(like over 100k) could cause the seals to leak or erode further or
something...i guess that was just talk though...my current mustang (a '73)
has bad valve guides and seats b/c the previous owner ran unleaded gas
through it, so unless there's a real benefit to using synthetic in relation
to this problem...I'm going to have to rebuild the engine soon
anyway...that's why i was asking.

Thanks for the help!

- Nick

> If your car is not in the first couple of hundred miles (use the oil
> that came with it to do initial break in), change to whatever your
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Simon Putz - 24 Aug 2003 14:40 GMT
> I'd heard something about switching to synthetic in a much older engine
> (like over 100k) could cause the seals to leak or erode further or
> something...i guess that was just talk though...my current mustang (a '73)

hey, they dont make seals erode more, the thing is, synth oil moves away more of the oil sludge and
some seals that should be leaking already might be covered with oil sludge from the dino oil. so in fact you are just making a leak that was already there appear properly. synthetic is better for your engine. but in a car with >100k miles you might make some problems that were already there appear.

i dont think it would help with your valve stems/guides/whatever. sounds like a good time to rebuild the engine with some performance parts, head for example :) so much more fun then.

bye

simon
 
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