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Re: Perhaps silly, but Synthetic Oil weight correlate exactly to convention oil weights ?
"FJ" <sec4251@remove the remove yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:13:21 -0800, SoCalMike
> <mikeinthe562athotmail@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>FJ wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Perhaps silly, but Synthetic Oil weight correlate exactly to
>>> convention oil weights ?
>>>
>>> I am coming up to the first oil change - 5K.
>>>
>>> Obviously Toyota put the original oil in the crackcase and I did not.
>>>
>>> Per my manual it reads 5W-30 for oil for the 2006 4runner.
>>>
>>> I have purchased 5w 30 Mobil 1 and a Mobil 1 oil filter for the 5K -
>>> that would be the appropriate weight, should it not ?[/color]
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>>it would, but i really wouldnt consider switching to synthetic until
>>15-20k miles, just to make sure the engine is completely broken in.[/color]
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> Wow, this really surprises me. A different kind responder suggested
> 10K before going to synthetic. And now a suggestion for waiting until
> 15-20K.
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> My neighbor, the electrical engineer changed his oil to synthetic at
> One Thousand miles. I had planned to change to synthetic at 5K, on the
> good advice of Ray. Now I am looking at it again.
> Wow, 20K to break in an engine.
> Others concur ???
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If you want to switch to synthetic, wait until at least the 2nd oil change
(10K). Any time after that is OK.
--
Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)
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