Synthetic oil questions
With the recent increase of getting an oil, filter change and lube on our 2011 Bounder with a workhorse chassis, I've decided to start doing it myself as I do on our other vehicles. The owners manual ...
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ppine wrote:
Synthetic oil carbon chains do not break down.
This is what I eluded to in my original post last year. I have personally run New/Used conventional and synthetics on the same GC at the same time. Once each sample is run we print of the graphs (chromatograms) where you can see the hydrocarbon chains that are present.
The two synthetics samples were nearly identical (new/used)
The two conventional samples were fairly different. The lighter hydrocarbon chains were severely degraded., the mid weights showed some degradation, the heavier ends were not that degraded.
Basically, by the end of its given life cycle in an engine, conventional needs to be removed as it has LOST a portion of its protective qualities, synthetic has not lost almost any of it, it needs to be changed due to contaminants present (dirt, water, metals, etc. etc).
Oil is the lifeblood of an engine, that's why we are so passionate about it, we all KNOW its importance. I just prefer to go "overboard" in this area.
