Thread: Synthetic

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Originally Posted by weylinthedirty

Wait wait.. My friend (he gets a really big head about shit and if you contradict him he basically gives you the bird). Anyways he kept telling me not to use synthetic in my new engine... I used Regular straight oil for 1500miles for the break in and went to synthetic blend. He still to this day tells me that that engine spun a rod because of the type of oil I used.
Was I alright using synthetic? or was I wrong...?

One of the biggest reasons people spin rod bearings is in correct rod prep,not enough bearing clearance.
The rod under high load conditions becomes egg shaped or elongated what this means is it pinches in the middle which will cause oil starvation.

Originally Posted by Matt167

your not supposto change back according to the oil manufactures but, it's been done and dosn't hurt a thing.

yup... the way that it will hurt is if say... you ran synthetic since your motor has been at 10k and you roll it over to 100k and for some reason put dino oil in there.... more than likely your gaskets wont hold up after that its only at high mileage and long use that i've seen changing back from synthetic tear through gaskets

Originally Posted by thesals

yup... the way that it will hurt is if say... you ran synthetic since your motor has been at 10k and you roll it over to 100k and for some reason put dino oil in there.... more than likely your gaskets wont hold up after that its only at high mileage and long use that i've seen changing back from synthetic tear through gaskets

What gaskets are you refering to??

generally cork oil pan and valve cover gaskets....... that aren't leaking til after the change back to dino oil