Re: re Synthetic oil

[John Van Vuren <veedublu@wirural.net>]

Would the oil temperature gauge work if there was really no oil in the
engine?  I know a water temp gauge will read little or nothing if
there's not antifreeze surrounding the sending unit.

John

'87 16v Scirocco
and lots of other stuff
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balance wrote:
> 
> A well broken in engine will run a suprisingly long
> time without oil- treated or not.
> one reason why I cannot believe (and I not doubting the
> fact that you didn't have oil,)
> but if you didn't there would be no pressure.
> 
>   you oil light would be on (if it worked) and at least
> there would be
> some noise from the oil pump whilst it sucked air.
> 
> Synthetic has it drawbacks-
> 
> *It doesn't have a good shelf life.
> 
> an old car that Synthetic has been used in the past can
> cause problems-
> It "dries" up, and turns to goo.
> 
> trust me , I know
> 
> Bought an 87 golf GT a few years back very cheap
> because
> the oil light was on.
> 
> hoping for the best but expecting the worse, I removed
> the oil plug, nothing.
> thinking it was just out of oil, I added some- funny,
> why wont this drain out?
> removed the oil pan to find a solid clump the cositency
> of mashed potatoes
> PO has religiously used Synthetic (Mobil one), but this
> time,
> she went away for a year, and the oil dried up into a
> gooy mess.
> a knife would stand up straight in this stuff.
> 
> have never used synthetic oil in my life, raced
> Porsches,
> towed 5000 lbs. with a Chinook camper(4 cyl Datsun), to
> Chicago from Niagara Falls,and back
> Drove a Mercedes (diesel) cross country that had
> 450,000 miles on it........
> 
> never any oil related problems.(that I caused)
> 
> IMHO,
> it is not worth the extra cost.
> 
> Percy.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Schuermann <rts@nol.net>
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
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