Posted by T.L. on March 07, 1999 at 22:35:59:
In Reply to: Re: Synthetic oil posted by Tom Laskowski on March 05, 1999 at 23:08:40:
Slick 50 is a joke...
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: : : Stefan: Do not switch to synthetic oil! And I mean do "NOT"
: : Bad experience?
: Slick 50 and Slick Willy! There both the same!
: Unless the "MACHINE" is designed from the ground up to use this type of lubricant,such as a air compressor,turbo,gear box etc.You are wasting your hard earned money.As far as a bad experience with synthetic oil ,No! I have not! But when I worked on the Alaska Railroad (Iwas a diesel mechanic) we got "sold " a line of BS that slick 50 was the greatest thing there was and we bought it in 55 gal drums,to put in our 3600hp engines,each engine held over 200 gallons of oil,now how much do you think that cost? Bottom line we lost three engines do to using this crap!Now how much to you think it cost to repair these engines? One power pac on a 12 cylinder EMD engine cost about the same as the Maverick did new,and thats not counting injectors! So if you want to risk using Synthetic go for it! but I still say NO WAY!