Posted by chip man on October 09, 2009 at 16:56:11 from (216.113.202.178):
In Reply to: Synthetic oil posted by Jerry RV on October 08, 2009 at 07:29:17:
The head office of the company I work for decided that we should switch all the trucks and equipment over to synthetic oil. The reason was to increase the oil change interval, as most of the trucks maintenence was being neglected anyway. What a waste of money that has turned out to be. Any truck with more than around 50,000 miles started leaking and burning oil right away. The gas powered stationary engines were the same. Diesel stationary engines with less than 3000 hrs and new trucks (both gas and diesel) seem to be ok and have minimal oil consumption when using a change interval double that of conventional oil. Any longer of an interval and the engine turns into a burner. The leakers, when switched back to cnventional oil still leak (mostly at the crank seals), the burning will slow down. This is my personal experience maintaining a fleetof 45 five ton trucks, 55 pick ups, 65 stationary engines, 10 off road machines. I will never use synthetic in my own vehicles.
To answer the question "will it start better in the winter" I would have to say that IF you release the clutch, the starter will be able to turn the engine over faster.
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