[T3] Synthetic Oil?

[Keith Park]

I like Tram

:-)

Keith


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On Behalf Of Mike Fisher
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020 3:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [T3] Synthetic Oil?

Tram just drained the synthetic out of my 003 AT & went to Castrol ATF.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:48 PM William Jahn <willjahn975 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know Russ Wolfe used synthetic oil after breaking in a rebuilt engine
> with conventional oil.
>
> I also went on a site from a fellow who has decades of building VW air
> cooled engines and he said never use synthetic oil in air cooled because
> the case temps will read normal yet the head temps will be much higher
> because the synthetic oil does not carry away the heat fast enough.
>
>  Here's a link to his oil discussion and his reason.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM5_ZXyNVl0
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 9:29 AM Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
>
> > Here's a somewhat interesting video on using synthetic oil in older
> > engines.
> > This guy's YouTube videos tend to be promos for various brands of
things,
> > but there's some interesting info here, plus something shows up here
that
> > I
> > found particularly interesting.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPFSR-2lhxY
> >
> > Let me know if you notice the same things.
> >
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