RE: Oil question

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

Shit man! If your trying to quiet engine noise with a different grade of oil 
instead of fixing the real problem; you might as well use gear oil!

Chris DeLong
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>From: "Fry, Larry" <LEF@chem-tronics.com>
>To: Isidro lepez <isidrolepez@yahoo.com>, The Scirocco Mailing List  
><scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: RE: Oil question
>Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:42:04 -0700
>
>No.  5w-50 is five-weight oil with modifiers added to it which will keep 
>the
>oil, when it is at operating temperature, at the same viscosity as a
>straight 50-weight would be at that same temp.  Your only hope here is to 
>go
>with a straight 50-weight, and even that won't gain much.
>
>Larry  sandiego16V
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Isidro lepez [mailto:isidrolepez@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:38 PM
>To: The Scirocco Mailing List
>Subject: Oil question
>
>
>I've been told that changing the grade of my oil from
>10w 30 to 5w 50 will quiet engine noise.  Is this
>true?  Also, does the other grade work as well as the
>10w 30 grade?
>
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